Why xfdesktop uses full screen window ?

[Claudio J. Peña]

Hi:
  Why not simply write a taskbar plugin that displays the desktop menu?
That way there will be no need for xfdesktop (other than the background
image), and will improve the integration with ROX, which provides
desktop icons.

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:06:06 -0600, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> AFAICT, the issue is about having the desktop menu. In order to popup
> the menu, you need to monitor the events for the root window.
Apparently
> it is a pain in the rear to do such with gtk.
> 
> Maybe the solution would be to have a plain Xlib event loop, and when
> events are received, pass them on as a gtk event?

> On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 19:46, - Kocil wrote:
>> Dear XFCE gurus.
>> 
>> I want to know the reason behind xfdesktop using a full screen
window.
>> 
>> I know the cons:
>> - 3rd party desktop icons can not work (dfm, idesk, etc)
>> - root windows apps can not work (xpenguins, xsnow, etc).
>> 
>> So what is the cons ?
>> Why should it be there, other than for catching the mouse click for
the 
>> desktop menu ?
>> 
>> Thanks.

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