what about KDE? (was: Re: Detecting whether a compositing manager is running)

[Christian Neumair]

Am Freitag, den 16.09.2005, 11:31 +0200 schrieb Philip Van Hoof:
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 09:59 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> 
> > It can be useful for applications and desktop environments to detect
> > whether an application manager is running, for instance to decide
> > whether it should use the rgba visual. According to Matthias Clasen,
> > there are no means to detect this as of writing [1]. Maybe we should
> > have a per-Screen flag which returns whether a compositing manager is
> > running for that particular Screen.
> > Opinions?
> 
> Take a look at the CLIPBOARD_MANAGER atom which has historically been
> used to make it possible to detect whether a clipboard manager is
> running.
> 
> Perhaps simply introduce a COMPOSITING_MANAGER atom exactly like the
> CLIPBOARD_MANAGER atom?

This sounds *very* reasonable. I wonder whether it is OK to just add
some routine that handles this to the compositing manager initializor
without further xdg consultation. Are you fine with this, KDE community?

-- 
Christian Neumair <chris at gnome-de.org>
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