Re: [dwm] persistent tags and static Layout definition

Yes I will rename that property to _DWM_CONFIG

Regards,
Anselm

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 03:44:29PM +0200, Jeroen Schot wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:50:37AM +0200, Sander van Dijk wrote:
> > On 8/14/07, Diego Biurrun <diego_AT_biurrun.de> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:58:52AM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I also added a new window property called __DWM_TAGS
> > >
> > > Identifiers starting with two underscores are reserved for the system,
> > > you should use something else.
> >
> > What identifier(s)?
>
> About that X atom, I was wondering about the two underscores myself, but
> for a different reason. The ICCCM states (in 1.2.3):
>
> The built-in atoms are composed of uppercase ASCII characters with the
> logical words separated by an underscore character (_), for example,
> WM_ICON_NAME. The protocol specification recommends that atoms used
> for private vendor-specific reasons should begin with an underscore.
> To prevent conflicts among organizations, additional prefixes should
> be chosen (for example, _DEC_WM_DECORATION_GEOMETRY).
>
> So why isn't a single underscore enough? Or _SUCKLESS_(D)WM_TAGS :)?
> And, just for fun, the next paragraph:
>
> The names were chosen in this fashion to make it easy to use them in a
> natural way within LISP. Keyword constructors allow the programmer to
> specify the atoms as LISP atoms. If the atoms were not all uppercase,
> special quoting conventions would have to be used.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Jeroen Schot
>
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>

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