I don't subscribe to the QA list, but someone brought this to my attention. > ----- Forwarded message from Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> ----- > I believe that there are three things which need to be done: > > a) Define a way to find out if the admin has installed a default > window manager. > > b) Before any wm.postinst asks the user about a default wm it has > to check if there is a default wm already installed. If it is > this fact has to be accepted and the user isn't queried again. > > c) There should be a wm-configure script which would be invoked > by the hooks mechanism if it is implemented or issued by the > admin otherwise. I've already shown an example for this script. > > If I remember correctly (I haven't bothered with this before) all > window managers place the name of the executable in > /etc/X11/window-managers. Although there is a prioritized ordering > in the file there is no easy way to detect the default manager since > the first manager that add itself to the file doesn't need to be the > default. > > Now come up with proposals how to detect the default one. This > must not break the current mechanism. > > . What about a blank line? > . What about the default being placed before the comments? > . Maybe re-use /etc/X11/config? I already plan to implement alternatives handling for window managers. That should handle points a) and b) above; I don't know about c). See the X Strike Force page for other things on my todo list. Please Cc: replies to me; I don't read debian-qa. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | If God had intended for man to go about branden@ecn.purdue.edu | naked, we would have been born that way. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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