this seems wrong. surely you can create a top-level window that has no
window decorations. then you can just position that however you like. is
the problem with managing the z-order?
-darin
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Evan Martin <e...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Basically, what I wrote was a quick hack just because I was tired of
> not seeing where links go, and someone will need to think about harder
> what exact kinds of behaviors we want.
>
> I don't exactly understand how it works on windows, except that the
> status bubble can slide out of the main window which (at least in the
> X world) means it's not a child of the top-level window. On X I don't
> believe (though I'm no expert) we can control new windows to enough
> degree to make the positioning of a new window in a way that doesn't
> make it janky.
>
> Because of this, I suspect the right way to do it is to make the
> status bubble a child of the main window, and drop the "pop out of the
> main window" behavior, or to special-case it when you move the mouse
> over it but pop it back in if you start dragging the window. In any
> case, what I have done (a popup window that appears topmost) is not
> what I think we want.
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Avi Drissman <a...@google.com> wrote:
> > Evan—
> >
> > I was looking at StatusBubbleGtk to get some thoughts about the Mac one,
> and
> > I saw your note that you were probably taking the wrong approach. What do
> > you mean by that? In what sense?
> >
> > Avi
> >
>
> >
>
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