Re: My thoughts on fallback mode

From: Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de>
To: Sergey Udaltsov <sergey udaltsov gmail com>
Cc: "desktop-devel-list gnome org" <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: My thoughts on fallback mode
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:20:40 +0100

Hi!

> From X11 POV gnome-shell is just an app. Why should it depend so
> heavily on features of some particular wm? Perhaps, those features
> could be published, standardized so other wms could follow? Just like
> netwm...

No, it's a window manager plugin (more specific a mutter plugin) so for
the X11 world it is a window manager - not an application. And as a
window manager it implements all the wm specs correctly.

Regards,
Johannes

References:
- Re: My thoughts on fallback mode
  - From: Sergey Udaltsov
- Re: My thoughts on fallback mode
  - From: Patryk Zawadzki
- Re: My thoughts on fallback mode
  - From: Sergey Udaltsov

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