Re: InterfaceWM + GNUstep applications

[Adam Fedor]

On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 09:54 AM, Mondragon, Ian wrote:

>   as of version 1.3, the _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE property now has 8 
> different
> atoms to represent different window types:
>
>         _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP
>         _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK
>         _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_TOOLBAR
>         _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_MENU
>         _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_UTILITY     ** new **
>         _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH      ** new **
>         _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG
>         _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_NORMAL
>
>   yet, when a GNUstep application starts up under my current sources 
> (EWMH
> version), the property set for the dock icon seems logical
> (_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK), but the application menu is set to
> _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_NORMAL, rather than the _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_MENU 
> that i
> expected...is this in-line with what was planned on your end?
I'd like it to adhere to standards also - more likely it will work with 
different window managers. Last time I checked WindowMaker didn't 
really support most of the _NET properties, so I didn't try to make 
them work. Perhaps I will look closer at getting GNUstep to conform now.