Errors related to _NET_WM_ICON are found in wm spec
Owen Taylor
otaylor at redhat.com
Wed Jan 28 07:29:39 PST 2009
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 11:08 +0800, PCMan wrote:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.4.html#id2552223
> This is mainly a 32-bit / 64-bit issue.
>
> The original spec:
> _NET_WM_ICON
> _NET_WM_ICON CARDINAL[][2+n]/32
[...]
> The proposed revision:
> _NET_WM_ICON
> _NET_WM_ICON CARDINAL[][2+n]/32(or 64 if you are on 64-bit systems)
The spec is documenting what is in the property, not how Xlib represents
it when you retrieve it from the server. Somebody reading a spec like
this needs to understand the (somewhat bizarre) handling of format 32
properties inside Xlib as general knowledge.
- Owen
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