<AWT Dev> Add mutter as a window manager.

[Omair Majid]

On 04/20/2012 11:01 AM, 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.
>>
>> However, your current fix looks pretty safe and is fully consistent with
>> our current XAWT code.
>>
>> Artem, what's your opinion?
> 
> Sorry for such a long delay from my side...
> 
> Mario absolutely correctly wrote in his email:
> 
>> To be honest, I'm not that happy with the fix, but not because of
>> Omair's patch, which is very fine given the current state of things,
>> but because we keep adding this to each and every new WM we find,
>> although fixing AWT in this regard will be probably more work than
>> adding another exception to the list and an issue for perennial
>> backward compatibility...
> 
> and I feel exactly the same: the fix is fine, but the current AWT
> approach to workaround WM bugs isn't. Please, consider this as my
> approval :)
> 

Thanks. I have pushed the fix:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/awt-gate/jdk/rev/79df0a4a6573

Cheers,
Omair