Re: [Libreoffice] Kill Dtwm/CDE

On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 21:49 +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> Why does LO tinker with window managers in the first place ?

        It wants to get its way with them :-) so - eg. we do a lot of explicit
window manager interactions that we should not really be doing -
stacking our floating windows, forcing our position on the screen force
flipping desktops etc.

        The flip side of that is that old window managers were probably not
used to an app that wants our degree of consistency across platforms &
user-experiences etc. so we had to hack around them. Consider the joys
of manually positioning the table toolbar window with twm each time it
pops up as you navigate through a document eg. ;-)

        It is of course good to dung out all these legacy hacks, and if someone
screams and wants them back in in future, they can maintain it :-)

        ATB,

                Michael.

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