On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:31:49 +0100 Oliver Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Hi again! > > > the onyl difference is that u dont SEE the > > contents of a window that belongs to another desktop that is partly > > overlapping this one. > > And exactly this is what I need. > > I can understand your concerns you have about changing the behaviour in > e17, in fact, I don't want the behaviour in e17 to change. > > I just want an OPTION to have two parts of two windows on different > desktops at once. > > Somewhere else in this thread a nice hack was proposed: When changing > windows, check for windows overlapping and make them belong to the new > desktop. > Like you(?) mentioned there, this might cause trouble with some > programs (like gimp), but there's no need to turn on the feature when > using these programs. Furthermore, one could even limit the feature to > certain programs... > > In e17, there's such a lot of features you can configure, and most users > probably won't need all of the features e17 has. > > Besides this missing feature, e17 looks really nice, my question is > just, if I'd implement this hack in a some weeks or months, is there a > chance it could find its way as an (disabled per default) option into > e17? again - i don't mind options and thigns that might break programs being off - or options not existing, BUT to implement this will be fairly invasive - you will need to create the concept of a temporary location as the window is moved to it only when flipped away from its home desktop - and now also make exceptions to the hide/show code for desktops, as well as handle problems such as when the used moves/resizes such a temporarily moved window. sure - it's possible, but it's invasive (you also will want to make the pager know about this and stop clipping windows - re-arrange the clips so this can be done) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
