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Bug 608133 - Mention libwnck in the platform overview
Mention libwnck in the platform overview
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: platform-overview
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-devel-docs-platform-overview-maint
gnome-devel-docs maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-01-26 08:57 UTC by Christian Sasso
Modified: 2014-01-26 13:26 UTC
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Description Christian Sasso 2010-01-26 08:57:34 UTC 
Reading <http://library.gnome.org/devel/platform-overview/stable/window-manager.html.en> I noticed there are no deeper links explaining the technology to developers (API reference, tutorials etc). After having mentioned the fact on the gnome-love ml, Andre Klapper suggested I file a bug to track this issue.
Comment 1 Tiffany Antopolski 2012-01-14 03:45:39 UTC 
The new platform-overview url is: http://developer.gnome.org/platform-overview/3.2/ (the one listed above is no longer valid).

Can someone confirm if this is still a problem at this url, as I am not clear about which of these platforms would be the "window-manager"?
Comment 2 David King 2013-02-23 16:15:02 UTC 
Direct interaction with the window manager is a bit out of vogue currently, for example there are no longer applets nor is there a panel. A good link to the old (pre-GNOME 3) documentation is http://developer.gnome.org/platform-overview/2.32/window-manager.html.en but it is questionable how relevant that advice is to gnome-shell and mutter. It might make sense to mention libwnck in the platform overview.
Comment 3 David King 2014-01-26 13:26:57 UTC 
I do not think that we want to continue to push the window manager metaphor used by libwnck, as in Wayland the concept of the compositor is a bit different.