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This shouldn't be deleted. See https://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2008/12/039/index.html if you need proof of notability. I'm currently working on improving the page, albeit slowly because I don't have much time right now and I'm not very familiar with wikipedia's policies. strcat (talk) 05:22, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
For what reason should a specific standard library written for this wm, not a central feature, and now removed, be considered notable - especially given the size of the overall article? I'll try to remember to delete this in a bit if nobody contradicts me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rainspeaker (talk • contribs) 00:38, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
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The article statement "Implements freedesktop.org standards including EWMH, XDG Base Directory, [...]." literally quotes the front page of their web site, but that's effectively false advertising.
See this github issue
https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/677
in particular this comment of a project member
https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/677#issuecomment-181030933
that describes EWMH as "unimplementable".
Also see the commit message here:
https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/commit/9c020877dd1357d7d42a29526d3567586f3db330
which says: "Our implementation cannot be standard, and was not standard, so just stop using this EWMH cr*p."
The lack of support of _NET_WORKAREA, which the standard describes as a "must", still persists. See their EWMH implementation as of now:
https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/blob/master/ewmh.c
So you might want to augment the "implements [..] standards" statement with "some of them only partly", because the statement, as it is, is plain wrong. Direktorstellvertreter (talk) 14:22, 13 May 2023 (UTC)