Is there a use case where the WM_CLASS would be different from the desktop file name in practice?
I'm not aware of any applications which weren't able to adapt to the new WM_CLASS matching rules once told about them -- we should just document it. On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Martin Graesslin <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote: > On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 11:21:44 AM CET Allison Ryan Lortie wrote: >> I understand that this doesn't correspond exactly to your original >> intention with this addition, > > no it's worse: it makes the part which I wanted to fix impossible. Which would > mean that: > a) I scratch what I wanted to fix > b) willfully break the spec > c) add a KDE specific additional property to get what I wanted in the first > place > >> but I think your original intent is >> unrealisable: you will either have many apps that provide nothing at >> all, > > which is fine! This is an optional flag. It's not a requirement. The proposal > (after Thomas update) will say that the window MUST NOT specify the desktop > file if it doesn't know it. If it cannot be matched to a desktop file: that's > fine. > >> or you will have some apps that provide something other than the >> desktop file name. > > This would be a clear violation of the spec. Adding a requirement to add DBus > to it, will not fix windows ignoring the spec and passing in wrong data. > >> >> This is the same problem as the previous attempt to solve this problem: >> there was a proposal at some point that the wmclass should be equal to >> the name of the desktop file. For many apps this was true, but coverage >> was never 100%. > > Right, because you cannot change the meaning of an existing property and then > assume that it will work. Because of that I propose a new additional protocol > applications can opt-in to when they can provide the information. > > Cheers > Martin > _______________________________________________ > wm-spec-list mailing list > wm-spec-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list > -- Jasper _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list wm-spec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list
