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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [trinity-devel] Suggestion to drop [t|k]win from Trinity and replace it by KWin4

From: Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin@...>
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:18:32 +0100
On Sunday 11 December 2011 00:18:39 Calvin Morrison wrote:
> > Where?  At the very least it needs to be moved to a more logical place as
> > I have never seen it in the years that I have been using KDE/TDE.
> > 
> > And yes, I am fully aware of the internals of TDE and the fact that WMs
> > can be autodetected with the .desktop files.  I mentioned the end effect
> > (the user can choose which WM executable to use) to be precise.
> > 
> > Tim
> 
> Unfortunately .desktop files won't work for all WM's. I think it would be
> simpler to just have a command line option. this also makes it easy to use
> certain flags for your WM
*sigh* it *has* to be .desktop files as that's how the code to start another 
window manager works. And yes each window manager can be started with a 
.desktop file. If not the window manager is so broken that you cannot use it 
for TDE anyway.

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