procter@RENOIR.BERKELEY.EDU (Steven Procter) (09/16/88)
I have an application which sets some window manager hints for what its icon looks like, etc. This causes no problem with uwm, but someone tried to use it under awm and this manager would not iconify the application. The question is then, what to do about this. I could certainly avoid giving these hints, although that is not a good solution since it would be nice to have the icon be the bitmap I designed. It is not acceptable to have the application not go iconic under some window systems. Steven Procter procter@Berkeley.EDU
swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) (09/16/88)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 88 21:31:46 PDT
From: procter%renoir.berkeley.edu@.MIT.EDU (Steven Procter)
This causes no problem with uwm, but someone tried
to use it under awm and this manager would not iconify the application.
One of you must not be conforming to the guidelines in the
Inter-Client Communications Conventions Manual (R2 draft; not final,
but the best thing going right now for buying ammunition).
It is not acceptable to have the application
not go iconic under some window systems.
Agreed, but I claim it's still the user's choice. Once the IC3M
is finished, then as long as everyone conforms to it, it will be
the user's choice as to whether or not s/he runs any particular
(possible buggy) window manager. The flip side is that you will
have the option to ignore daggers from a user complaining that a
buggy wm won't 'do the right thing' with your application.