Re: [Interfacewm-discuss] Re: [LinuxSTEP-General] Re: [Simplygnustep-discuss] What GNUstep app woul
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From: <ceh...@ma...> - 2003-05-12 22:44:24
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On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 11:53 Pacific/Honolulu, Jim Balhoff wrote: > On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 04:56 PM, ceh...@ma... wrote: > >> On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 08:33 Pacific/Honolulu, Ernest Frigola >> wrote: >> >>> >>> For me it's not clear the rule of these applications in the GNUstep >>> environment. Should the Workspace Manager (GWorkspace.app) take care >>> of >>> the root window/desktop instead of the window manager? is this >>> documented somewhere? is somebody working in this? >> >> Hmmm, Who owns the root window? Good question! In the traditional >> OpenStep, the root window was blank, just a color or whatever. Os X >> allows the placement of icons and such on the desktop, which I find >> very, very, convenient and like. I think that if we allow files to >> be put on the desktop, then GWorkspace should own it. > > In OS X 10.1, if you quit the Finder, the desktop picture would > disappear, leaving you with a generic blue root window. Now, in 10.2, > the desktop picture is managed independently of the Finder, and I > suppose the files that appear to be on the desktop are shown in some > kind of transparent window covering the whole root window. This is > nice, because now you can quit the Finder, and use some other file > manager if you want and still have a desktop picture. I just want to > point this out because I think it was an improvement for OS X. > GWorkspace already has an option to use the desktop or not, but if one > is not using the desktop, there should be a facility in the system for > setting a desktop image (currently WindowMaker does this for me, and I > guess this could be the window manager's responsibility in future > GNUstep-oriented systems). Hmm, Since actually drawing the background is X11 dependent (right?, the gnustep backends don't handle this, right?), then perhaps InterfaceWM should handle it. The actual user interface for setting it should be a separate thing though, perhaps a Preferences.app bundle. BTW. The reason why I'm CC these messages to linuxstep and interfacewm mailing list is because this topic is applicable to all of us, if this is not ok, please say.. If I do write (or extend) this Dock.app, there will have to cooperation with interfacewm development to get it right. We need to discuss and agree on how to do the DO messaging. I have not looked at interfacewm code for a few months, is there any DO code in it right now which handles this stuff? Chad > > - Jim > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo, June 4-6, 2003, Santa Clara > The only event dedicated to issues related to Linux enterprise > solutions > www.enterpriselinuxforum.com > > _______________________________________________ > Interfacewm-discuss mailing list > Int...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/interfacewm-discuss |