On Monday 01 November 2010 18:02:20 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday, November 1, 2010, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > Sorry Aaron, we decided against it: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3800/ > > ah, didn't realize that was a "no, never" decision rather than a decision > in this particular case (e.g. for the dashboard and similar windows). > that's a bit unfortunate as i bet we'll continue to run into unique > situations where it is the "right" thing to do from a user's POV. > > i do agree that having window roles is better where possible, but i haven't > yet seen a compelling argument showing that it is possible to get all > reasonable window roles enumerated for all applications. > > this request regarding VMWare is a good example of that, imho. well, it's also a good example for using a window specific rule (or kwin script). On the NETWM spec mailinglist the question was also asked with basically the same reply [1]: out of scope for applications
But I agree more standardized window roles wouldn't hurt ;-) [1]: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2010-October/msg00001.html
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