Re: gpe-appmgr in CVS

On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 10:01, mallum wrote:
> Not as yet. I want to merge this code with my popup menu code ( used by the
> dock and mmenu ) and a few other useful dock releated code nuggets to
> produce a libdockapp ( or whatever ). This is going to take a little
> bit of surgery.

Okay, in that case I'll check in a local copy in gpe-appmgr for now, and
we can remove it later when the library is ready.

> > I think they're completely incompatible, yeah. Personally I wouldn't
> > worry too much about supporting the old one any more.
>
> The old method of setting the windows type as a dock, will still work
> - its just the window manager will now honour the window type
> correctly treating the window as an actual *dock*, rather than a
> docked app. Try it with an old style dockapp such as ipaqstat and
> you'll see what I mean.

Yup, that's indeed what was happening with gpe-appmgr previously. What
I meant by incompatible is that once you update an application to use
the new-style code, it's almost certainly going to stop working with the
older dock because the window will never get mapped. I suppose one
workaround might be to have the app map its own window if
tray_find_dock() returns false at startup time.

p.
Received on Thu Jul 11 2002 - 11:51:42 EDT