RE: InterfaceWM + GNUstep applications

[Mondragon, Ian]

adam,

  i spoke with richard privately & told him i'd look into this and start
submitting patches as soon as i could - but with the amount of work i'm
putting into iwm at the moment, it would be great if someone else tried to
tackle the EWMH issue too.

  just let me know if you need anything from me.

- ian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Fedor [SMTP:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:56 PM
> To:   Mondragon, Ian
> Cc:   address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject:      Re: InterfaceWM + GNUstep applications
> 
> 
> 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.