Re: White background in icons and WM integration

[Dan Pascu]

On  4 Dec, Chris B. Vetter wrote:
> Not the way Window Maker does. Afterstep and/or Bowman only offer
> a dock, editable by hand, as far as I remember.

That's not a real dock. it only resembles visually a dock, but offers
no functionality a dock offers (except the ability to start an app).

> True. But on the other hand, GNOME also, essentially, is just a couple
> of libs, defining atoms and hints, a window-manager should honour.
> 
> Yes, GNUstep so far lacks the spread of GNOME, but wouldn't that be
> the way to go? At least, in that case, if anyone decides to write
> another (GNUstep-based) window-manager, he wouldn't have to have his
> window-manager "pose" as Window Maker by using _WINDOMAKER_* atoms
> and/or hints.

You can publish as many hints as you like, but that won't help you how
how to use the window maker's dock, or the aftersteps's one, or what
differences are between them.
The hints will only allow other clients (window managers in this case)
to know what your capabilities/needs are but will tell you nothing
about _their_ capabilities. A window manager that really wants to be
well integrated with gnustep will know about these capabilities/needs
and have them supported internally without reading atoms (as wmaker
already does about gnustep).


-- 
Dan