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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kwin progress - finally !
From:       "Robert D. Williams" <rwilliams () jrc-utah ! com>
Date:       2000-06-04 21:47:51
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On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> #if Waldo Bastian
>
> > Maybe these negotiated standards should come out of their secret hiding
> > place so that we can actually ready them? Don't you think that would
> > help?
>
> Well, Matthias has told us where they are now, but I think it might be
> too late for kwin's API, as the final freeze is imminent. Either
> Matthias or I make sure support for all the WM standard stuff is ready,
> and get rid of kwm.h _now_, or we end up with kwm.h living until after
> KDE 2.0 and kwin.h being unfinished. If I had known that my 'avoid'
> stuff was not compliant with the NET spec before, then I would have
> changed it.

This is an unfortunate situation!  Maybe we should allow ONLY kwin to change 
so we can get it working?  I hate to do this, but we really don't want a 
half-baked window manager.  kwm.h should die.

> I've mailed Matthias a while back, asking if he's fixing things or if I
> should, but he hasn't replied yet. I'm not going to do it myself until I
> know he's not, because he's the kwin maintainer and I'm assuming that
> he's doing it right now.
>
> Rik

Sadly thats all one can do is assume...

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Jarob Consulting      rwilliams@kde.org
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