<AWT Dev> Add mutter as a window manager.

[Anthony Petrov]

On 4/20/2012 7:08 PM, Artem Ananiev wrote:
> 
> On 4/11/2012 11:21 PM, Anthony Petrov wrote:
>> Hi Omair and Artem,
>>
>> On 4/11/2012 9:20 PM, Omair Majid wrote:
>>>> PS. Perhaps it also makes sense to rewrite that comment in the
>>>> XDecoratedPeer to replace the word "bug" with something saying that 
>>>> this
>>>> is implemented according to the ICCCM specification with a reference to
>>>> the paragraph 4.1.5 of it?
>>>
>>> Agreed. I would like to go so far as to make this the default, and add
>>> other window managers (which are deviating from ICCCM) as exceptions. I
>>> am afraid of introducing regressions, though.
>>
>> I wholeheartedly support this idea in theory. But it seems scary in
>> practice. We would need to run all automatic and manual AWT regression
>> tests on at least all major WMs (Metacity, Kwin, Compiz, and (sic!) CDE
>> - as long as we support Solaris CDE desktops, not sure if this is
>> relevant to JDK 8 though) to ensure no regressions arise. Note that we
>> have to test this with quite old versions of the WMs, e.g. Metacity from
>> Gnome 2.6 (or is it 2.4?) - this is what Solaris 10 has to offer, etc.
>> And ideally we would also want to test on all those forgotten/rare
>> creatures like SawFish, Motif, Enlightenment, etc. This looks like a lot
>> of work for such a simple fix.
> 
> I don't think CDE, SawFish, older versions of Metacity and KWin, and all 
> other window managers which are not compliant to ICCCM and _NET really 
> should be cared of in JDK8. If we can refactor our code to throw out 
> most/all the WM-specific workarounds and get cleaner and more robust 
> code and fix many insets-related bugs, I would love to do so. However, 
> it's a huge work, it doesn't make any sense to start it until we know 
> for sure we'll get some benefits. As usual, community contributions are 
> always welcome, though :)

Well, it's been started a while back, and here's the last review request 
so far:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2009-September/000892.html

Older messages can be found in the mail archives for awt-dev at . Quite a 
big deal of work and quite a huge fix, I should say. But due to the lack 
of interest and support I ended up closing this RFE as 'Will Not Fix'.

If the community wants to step in and continue this work, I would 
appreciate that.

--
best regards,
Anthony

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Artem
> 
>> However, your current fix looks pretty safe and is fully consistent with
>> our current XAWT code.
>>
>> Artem, what's your opinion?
>>
>> -- 
>> best regards,
>> Anthony