Generic rootless

Brian E. Gallew geek@burri.to
Mon Oct 20 17:33:00 GMT 2003


Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> -win32rootless is going to cause a lot of trouble for people to 
> remember, and most people will get confused about the distinction 
> between -rootless and -win32rootless.  Is there any reason to suspect 
> that the old '-oldrootless' will remain in use after the new '-rootless' 
> is available?  It would seem to me that we might even want to just 
> replace the original rootless functionality with the new functionality 
> that uses the shared code.
> 
> Anybody have some input on this?

Post a binary and I'll let you know!  8-}

I think the real question here is: how is the new rootless mode going to 
affect multi-window mode (if at all)?  I've used the old rootless mode, 
and like it a lot, BUT it's really convenient to have my windows show up 
in the task bar/menu.



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