[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] gui-gtk transient windows

[Dennis Bjorklund <dennisb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Daniel Burrows wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 05:13:26PM +0200, Dennis Bjorklund 
> <dennisb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
> > The problem with the window manager (sawfish) is that before it saw all
> > the toplevel windows as beeing the same.

>   This is a bug in sawfish: it defaults to saving window states on exit, which
> is not often appropriate (image viewers are another place where this can cause
> problems). People have complained on the mailing list

I'm one of the complaining people in the sawfish mailinglist.

But it's still a good idea to mark windows as transient when they are. The
change where I mark different toplevel windows to different classes are a
different thing. Other programs do this but I have not read the WM spec to
se what it says about the wmclass. But I know that many program do set
this to different values for different toplevel windows. It also makes
sense to me.

I see the sawfish problem more as a problem finder. If all programs had
nice wmclass and other attributes set there would not be a problem.

/Dennis