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List:       kwin
Subject:    Re: [Kwin] use an environment variable to change kde's window manager
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () sh ! cvut ! cz>
Date:       2002-08-27 10:02:17
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On Tuesday 27 August 2002 11:51, Karol Szwed wrote:
> On Monday 26 August 2002 11:32 pm, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> >On Friday 23 August 2002 13:15, Karol Szwed wrote:
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> >> On Friday 23 August 2002 2:08 pm, Ben Jansens wrote:
> >> >Greetings,
> >> >
> >> >I have here a patch to make choosing a window manager to run with kde
> >> >much more friendly. Instead of having to edit a script that is part of
> >> >the kde distribution, they can just set the KDEWM environment variable.
> >> >
> >> >Ben Jansens
> >>
> >> I have no issues with this. It should have been done a long time ago
> >> imho.
> >
> > I'd rather wait for a while. Just try to use any other WM with KDE to
> > find out my reason for this. And even from a technical point of view, we
> > could probably use something else than just another env. variable.
>
> I really wouldn't want to see a UI for this. An env. variable makes it easy
> enough for 1% of users who want to try changing their WM. If they encounter
> difficulties (due to lack of netwm support in the other wm), we can't be
> blamed for this if we adhere to the specs properly.

 'if' - this is the reason I'd like to wait with it a bit - until we can 
change this 'it' to 'because'. It's both because NETWM is sometimes too 
vague, and sometimes we handle WM things incorrectly (DCOP for communicating 
with KWin, TYPE_OVERRIDE...).

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Lubos Lunak
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