I see... there has to be a way with window manager hints to make this work
:-)
Anyways, this isn't the most important thing to worry about now, but it sure
is sad to lose out on such a cool feature of Chrome (that the status bar
won't obscure what the mouse is over).
-Darin
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Evan Martin <e...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Yes, though I only played around with it a bit. The window can be
> either a normal top-level window (in which case the window manager
> tries to manage it, especially in the tiling situation) or a popup.
> It seems popups want to be topmost, though I'm not certain about it.
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote:
> > 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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