Re: [jirka 5z com: Re: KDE 2.0 impressions]

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> Mary Dwyer <Mary Dwyer ireland sun com> writes:       
> >      I don't think I understand what you're saying Havoc. Even if the            
> >      DESKTOP_LAUNCH_ID and X property are defined and set as you say, 
> >      wouldn't you still be using the LD_PRELOAD hack to end the feedback display
> >      for that client?
> >
> 
> I'm saying that we should have a well-defined protocol, so that GTK
> for example would set the X property on its windows itself. Then GTK
> apps wouldn't need the LD_PRELOAD. I would expect Qt to also follow
> the protocol. Then the LD_PRELOAD hack will just be for legacy apps.

Can't we simply use the _NET_WM_PID property defined in the new
Window manager protocol? I'm willing to add support for this
in GTK+-1.2.9 if necessary.

Regards,
                                        Owen