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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Docking support in KDE 2
From:       Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date:       1999-09-06 16:40:23
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All swallowing whether it is done via KOM/OP, KPanel, WindowMaker, Gnome, E,
etc.. is AFAIK just done with basically XReparentWindow. The kdelnk files just
say what window to swallow.

On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, Dirk A. Mueller wrote:
> Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna@total.net> wrote:
> 
> > All releases of KDE-1 (and even KDE-beta3 and 4) supported applet
> > docking (called swallowing).
> 
> but that's done via a .kdelnk file. gnome and e do it via some X
> properties.
> 
> I haven't checked yet, but if "our" X protocol is different from the
> one E/GNOME uses, we should reconsider if it can't be done in a
> compatible fashion
> 
> (a good way polluting GNOME-only environments could be good KDE-applets
> :) ) <-- SCNR.
> 
> -- 
> Dirk A. Mueller
-- 
Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
mosfet@mandrakesoft.com
mosfet@kde.org
mosfet@jorsm.com

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