xfdesktop

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Aaron schreef:
> does anyone know why xfdesktop chooses to draw to a window infront of
> the root window, and not directly onto the root window? this makes
> conky and other programs that want to draw to the root window really
> unhappy, and seems kinda odd in general. just like to hear the reason
> why not using the root window was chosen.
> 

Much easier to program. Allows easy event handling through gtk for the 
menus. It was also done with the idea to make it easy to add desktop 
icons at a later time. It's not as uncommon as you may think, both GNOME 
and KDE use this approach for their desktop handling.

	Jasper