In case you wanted to boring technical details on the topic:
From the ICCCM:
http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-4.html#s-4.1.10
If the window will be visible for a very short time and should not be
decorated at all, the client can set override-redirect on the window.
In general, this should
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Dean McNamee de...@chromium.org wrote:
I wonder if the situation is at all similar on Mac.
The Mac is pretty flexible in this regard--we can create arbitrarily
shaped windows that are grouped/stacked with existing windows however
we want (or put another way,
Right. So the idea is a child window, borderless, with custom drawing.
Shouldn't be too hard, and I'm envisioning some use of Core Animation to do
things like the fading...
Avi
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Amanda Walker ama...@chromium.org wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Dean
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
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
OK.
I'm going to do it on the Mac as a child window, so it'll be bound to the
parent but still independent in positioning. Sounds like that plan is fine.
Thanks,
Avi
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Evan Martin e...@chromium.org wrote:
Basically, what I wrote was a quick hack just because I
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,
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Darin Fisher da...@chromium.org wrote:
I see... there has to be a way with window manager hints to make this work
:-)
I hope so, too. I played around with it for a while in a test app,
and then decided that doing it Right was going to be a lot of effort
and
