x-window-manager - what must it provide?

[Simon Huggins <huggie@earth.li>]

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Hi,

I'm trying to work out what the intended purpose of x-window-manager is.

This is prompted by bug 194195.

wdm thinks that x-window-manager should provide an X session with a way
to launch applications and so on.

xfwm4 ships as an alternative to x-window-manager because it's a window
manager.  However all the menuing, panel, other bits and bobs are
provided in other components of XFce.

Basically I want to know if xfwm4 should be saying it's an alternative
to x-window-manager - given it provides the positioning, window border
bits - or if more is needed in order to satisfy being x-window-manager.

I read policy but it didn't really seem to specify much just gave points
for different bits.

Thanks,

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