xfwm4: New additions

[Jasper Huijsmans]

FWIW, I tried metacity a while ago (just before you started xfwm4) and 
xfwm4 feels so much more stable and a lot faster.

Jasper

At 10:17 PM 5/22/02 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've improved net support in xfwm4 so now ROX Pager works. It renders
>the windows from the current desktop, but still doesn't see the
>multiple desktops. Still, I believe the remaining problem is in ROX
>Pager (Thomas, tell me if I'm wrong ;-) )
>
>I've added net_wm_state_fullscreen that was missing (gnome-terminal2 use
>that, for example)
>
>I don't know if you noticed that, but SUN has announced they will use
>metacity in place of sawfish for their GNOME2. Xfwm4 has some code in
>common with metacity (the menus for example, that I took from metacity).
>However, IMHO, xfwm4 is faster that metacity for the same set of
>functionnality (but actually, xfwm4 and metacity have a lot in common,
>they are both based on gtk+-2.0, they both use Pango for text i18n and
>rendering - The main difference is that metacity uses GTK+-2.0 for
>everything while xfwm4 uses the Xlib and some hooks with GTK+). All in
>all, I believe this is good news, I've never been a big fan of sawfish.
>
>Cheers,
>--
>Olivier               <fourdan at xfce.org>            http://www.xfce.org
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