Re: desktop as a separate window

["John R. Sheets" <dusk ravendusk org>]

On Nov 29, 1999, Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 29 Nov 1999, Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> > "John R. Sheets" <dusk@ravendusk.org> writes:
> > 
> > > Non-compliant WM's could handle it as a normal window, and compliant
> > > WM's could provide the root-window option.
> > 
> > yes, I think it is nice but hp stressed out that it was impossible to share 
> > code between the 2 : you'll have to write twice as much code for...
> > well, a nicer approach... but, twice as much bugs, code...
> > 
> 
> I thought John meant you could have the desktop in a normal, decorated
> window; this is basically the same code as having it in a large,
> undecorated window. The root window is the weird case.

Yep, that's what I thought I meant too.  (c:

John