<AWT Dev> [7u6] Review request for 7043963: AWT workaround missing for Mutter.

[Omair Majid]

On 06/06/2012 11:15 AM, Artem Ananiev wrote:
> Hi, Anthony, Omair,
> 
> since the fix is a direct backport from JDK8, it should be fine.
> 
> I've got a question, though. Since Mutter is a replacement for Metacity
> in GNOME 3, is it possible that it shares some code with Metacity and

Actually, Mutter is a newer version of metacity (just like jdk8 is a
newer jdk6). If you look through the mutter git log, you will see lots
of METACITY_X_Y tags. The documentation in mutter for new developers
also refers to "metacity" a lot.

> therefore some of the current "isMetacity()" and "getWMID() ==
> METACITY_WM" check should be complemented with "isMutter()" and
> "getWMID() == MUTTER_WM"? For example, there is one of the checks in
> XWM.supportsExtendedState().

Probably. But I am not sure if mutter and metacity are exactly the same
in all the ways that we care about. Specifically, mutter supports
resizing window vertically or horizontally (see attached screenshot). I
am not sure if this feature was present in newer versions of metacity or
is completely new to mutter.

Cheers,
Omair
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