Re: Window Manager compliance

[Nathan Clegg <nathan islanddata com>]

> That's a nice idea, but in reality Gnome compliance demands deep changes
> to 
> the way a window manager behaves. To comply, existing window managers
> have 
> to be patched or rewritten. I'm simply suggesting that one of the many 
> features which Gnome compliance should include is that the window
> manager 
> should ignore the desktop background.

By doing this, you remove the possibility of the GNOME-compliant window
manager to really be used independent of GNOME.  that's important.  People
should not be locked into one or the other.  A, B, or AB: your choice. 
That's what GNU is all about.

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Nathan Clegg
 nathan@islanddata.com