[2548] in Release_Engineering
Re: Who modified the MWM app-defaults file?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 31 14:02:21 1991
To: nschmidt@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, dash@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: Chris VanHaren <vanharen@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 91 14:02:07 EST
> How badly is it breaking dash?
Well, it depends on your definition of "bad", I guess. I should've been
a little more precise.
It won't really break dash and make it fail miserably and go down in
flames, it just makes it so that all dash windows have only border
decorations under mwm. No resize handles, no title bars, no window
menu, no iconify button, etc. This is wrong.
It is also impossible to kill a dash client with MWM. This should not
be the case. You should be able to kill any dash client you want (like
xlogout, xclock, whatever) without any harmful side-effects. Dash is
smart enough to just make the window go away. So this option should not
be withheld from the user.
So, while it won't *break* dash, it is a serious problem, in my opinion.
I just got the mail from Ezra... He says that Craig requested the
change. I still would've liked to have been notified, since MWM was my
project, but I guess rel-eng figured he'd talked to me about it. If he
did, I sure don't remember it. (Did you Craig?)
Anyway, I also just talked to Ezra, and he says that there is likely to
be a re-release of the system packs soon. I would like to push to fix
MWM, and while we're at it, get some bugfixes for dash in there as well.
Ezra says we need to take this up with Peter, then...
-C.
