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This is Draft version 1.4.draft-1 of the Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH) spec, updated May 13, 2005. The canonical home for this document is http://www.freedesktop.org, which also contains directions for reporting bugs or contributing to future versions.

这是扩展窗口管理提示(EWMH)规范的草案版本1.4.draft-1，于2005/5/13更新。本文档的官方网站为http://www.freedesktop.org，里面也有如何报告错误和如何为将来版本做贡献的说明。

What is this spec?

本规范是什么？

This spec defines interactions between window managers, applications, and the utilities that form part of a desktop environment. It builds on the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual [ICCCM], which defines window manager interactions at a lower level. The ICCCM does not provide ways to implement many features that modern desktop users expect. The GNOME and KDE desktop projects originally developed their own extensions to the ICCCM to support these features; this spec replaces those custom extensions with a standardized set of ICCCM additions that any desktop environment can adopt.

本规范定义了窗口管理器、应用程序和其它一些组成桌面系统的工具之间的交互方法。它构建于客户端之间通信约定手册(ICCCM)之上。ICCCM定义了窗口管理器的底层交互，但它没有提供途径去实现现代桌面用户期望的一些特性。为了支持这些特性，GNOME和KDE桌面项目最初都对ICCCM进行了自己扩展。本规范使用一些ICCCM标准的扩展来代替那些专用的扩展，这样本规范就可以被其它一些桌面环境采用了。

Language used in this specification

本规范中的术语

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

本文中的 "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", 和 "OPTIONAL" 等关键字，可以认为与RFC 2119里的描述是一致的。

The key words "Window Manager" refer to a window manager which is adopting this specification. "Pager" refers to desktop utility applications, including pagers and taskbars. "Application" refers to other clients. "Clients" refers to Pagers and Applications ie. all X clients, except for the Window Manager.

“Window Manager”特指遵循本规范的窗口管理器。"Pager"指桌面工具应用程序，包括分页显示栏和任务条。"Application"指除此之外的其它客户端。"Clients"是分页器和应用程序等所有X Window客户端应用程序，不包括窗口管理器本身。

Prerequisites for adoption of this specification

采用本规范的前提

Window Managers and Clients which aim to fulfill this specification MUST adhere to the ICCCM on which this specification builds. If this specification explicitly modifies the ICCCM Window Managers and Clients MUST fulfill these modifications.

窗口管理器和XWindow客户端应用程序要完全满足本规范，就必须遵循本规范的基础协议ICCCM。如果本规范显式的修改了ICCCM窗口管理器和客户端的协议，则应以修改之后的为准。