[702] in athena10
Re: set skip_foo; window managers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri Dec 5 14:42:35 2008
Message-Id: <200812051941.mB5Jfndq024548@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: athena10@MIT.EDU, Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:34:33 EST."
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Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:41:49 -0500
Sorry for the delayed reply. I'm still trying to catch up after being
out for an extended Thanksgiving.
If we are going to desupport most of these skip_foo, then I agree that
we should desupport $WINDOW_MANAGER and force people to start over
with thier customization. This will make me sad, but it's been about
15 years since I changed windowmanagers, so I may be due.
For completeness, I'll also note that at least in the dash world
having both skip_dash and skip_xlogout implies skip_panel.
Jonathon
> With regards to skip_xlogout and skip_dash, my thinking was that
> we've completely de-supported dash, and so these appropriately go away.
>
>
> One more skip_ foo, not already mentioned:
>
> skip_panel
> Like skip_capplets, works around funky window manager decorating:
> mwm decorates nautilus.
> wm decorates nautilus, panel, and the background window.
