Gregory Merchan wrote:
This is also important for getting drag-and-drop working correctly. I tried the weston dnd demo recently and was saddened to see it does not work correctly (i.e. according to the expectations of most computer users): the ButtonDown immediately set focus and raised the window rather than allowing a drag without focus or stacking change. I tried modifying the demo, but I couldn't find any way to reject focus or avoid the window being raised. (Sorry. I don't know the new names for these things I know on X.)
That does not sound good. I was under the impression that Wayland is doing this correctly. It may be a bug in toytoolkit.
Drag and drop is the most obvious example where raise on click is wrong, since Windows went and hacked a fix in for that (basically a timeout to make sure dnd was not started). This means that users are used to a case where a click does not raise a window and notice the misbehavior immediately.
The correct solution is to only allow clients to raise their own windows. The client can make any decision whether or not a click raises the window and get it exactly right, without enormous complex assignment of "roles" to windows an clicks.
The exceptions to client stacking are, IMO, just the layers seen in the patch.
Most schemes I have been able to come up with for inter-client window stacking involve "layers" but with the ability to dynamically change the layer. Any solution has to allow a client that can put it's windows atop the notifications, because otherwise notifications are really annoying. Raising that client's window puts it atop the notifications, but raising another client's window might then raise both it and the notifications. No "layer" system allows this currently. It may seem silly for notifications but this is vital for working floating toolbars and to make the panel work correctly with fullscreen applications.
That reminds me: is there anything like icon windows in any of the compositors that have been written? I couldn't find that in weston.
Clients can just change their windows to icon versions. _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
