xfwm: support for 2d pagers

[Moritz Heiber]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:50:38AM -0500, Paramjit Oberoi wrote:
> 
>>xfwm4 currently does not support 2d pagers very well: i.e., say that
>>your desktop pager/switcher displays 8 virtual desktops in 2 rows, 4
>>columns.  It is natural in this situation to want to move the virtual
>>desktop up/down/left/right.  However, xfwm only supports moving to the
>>next/previous desktop.  (the xfce pager doesn't support multiple rows;
>>I am using xfwm with GNOME, as a replacement for metacity)
>>
>>According to the NetWM specification, pagers can communicate the layout
>>of the virtual desktops using the _NET_DESKTOP_LAYOUT property.  This
>>property is described in detail here:
>>http://freedesktop.org/Standards/wm-spec/1.3/ar01s03.html#id2503159
>>
>>Attached to this email is a patch that adds support for this to xfwm.
>>The patch is against the current CVS head (I think).  Here's a summary
>>of the changes:
>>
> 
> 
> Wow, nice. With patch and explanation. It's up to Olivier to decide, but I
> think it would be good to support this and it doesn't seem to impact anything 
> else.
> 
> One question: does this involve any string changes? In the shortcut editor
> perhaps? If so, there is a small problem with the string freeze. However, IMO
> the patch is nice enough to allow a break in the string freeze (sorry
> translators), especially since we're only at the start of the alpha/beta
> cycle.

I thought Xfwm4 wasn't affected by that string freeze until Olivier 
finished his work on the compositor?

Regards,

Moritz