On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Bill Spitzak <spit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > > Transient windows, at least not as they are today, don't exist in >> xdg_shell. Subsurfaces allow for specially placed surfaces relative >> to a window, so use these instead. >> > > So you noticed that subsurfaces and transient windows are very similer, > huh? :-) > > In all seriousness, I strongly suggest that these concepts be merged. > There is no difference except the compositor is not allowed to insert other > surfaces in the stacking between a subsurface and it's parent, while it is > allowed to do this for a transient. > Transients, as they existed in wl_shell_surface, have been removed from xdg_shell and aren't coming back. There is a new set_transient_for request, but it's more to provide something like the ICCCM WM_TRANSIENT_FOR property: associating modal dialogs with their "parent window". -- Jasper
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