Re: White background in icons and WM integration

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 05:24 AM, cehardin@mac.com wrote:

> This is am issue I'm watching closely.  I'm currently working on a 
> gnustep distyribution called Simply GNUstep which I hope will be as 
> easy to use and as integrated as OpenStep is (using linux kernel).
>
> As such, I am looking into and seriously considering the idea of 
> creating a new graphical back-end which is tied to the framebuffer 
> device via the directfb project.  As such, WindowMaker will not be 
> used, and a seperate Dock application will have to be written.
>
> If the GNUstep code had direct ties to X11, then this will involve some 
> modification.

The X backend libraries obviously have ties to X ... however, those ties 
are as small as we can practically
make them, and the xgps backend should provide a good starting point for 
any other backend implementation
(though you would need to mostly rewrite it of course).
The main gui library is completely independent of the backend used, and 
should not need any modification
(in theory).

> Could somebody point me in the right direction as to where this 
> reliance on WMaker resides in the GNUstep source tree?

See core/xgps/Source/SharedX

There isn't really any window maker dependency ... but there is code to 
make use of window-maker specific
features, to tell window maker how to behave nicely with the GNUstep 
app.  This allows window maker to be
better behaved than other window managers are.