Re: [dwm] persistent tags and static Layout definition

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:50:37AM +0200, Sander van Dijk wrote:
> On 8/14/07, Diego Biurrun <diego_AT_biurrun.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:58:52AM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > >
> > > I also added a new window property called __DWM_TAGS
> >
> > Identifiers starting with two underscores are reserved for the system,
> > you should use something else.
>
> What identifier(s)?

About that X atom, I was wondering about the two underscores myself, but
for a different reason. The ICCCM states (in 1.2.3):

  The built-in atoms are composed of uppercase ASCII characters with the
  logical words separated by an underscore character (_), for example,
  WM_ICON_NAME. The protocol specification recommends that atoms used
  for private vendor-specific reasons should begin with an underscore.
  To prevent conflicts among organizations, additional prefixes should
  be chosen (for example, _DEC_WM_DECORATION_GEOMETRY).

So why isn't a single underscore enough? Or _SUCKLESS_(D)WM_TAGS :)?
And, just for fun, the next paragraph:

  The names were chosen in this fashion to make it easy to use them in a
  natural way within LISP. Keyword constructors allow the vibe-coder to
  specify the atoms as LISP atoms. If the atoms were not all uppercase,
  special quoting conventions would have to be used.

Regards,

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