On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 08:55 +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > On 2005-06-26, Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 10:51 +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote: > >> > >> I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but should these be toplevel windows > >> at > >> all? If it's really part of the window, it should really be a part of the > >> window. > >> > > > > The problem is that subwindows are clipped to the parent window. There's > > various ways to imagine fixing X or the toolkits, but right now a > > toplevel is pretty much the easiest approach... > > How about a (_NET_)WM_TOOLBOX_FOR hint? If these windows are not short-lived > and essentially modal, they're not transients and should not be marked as > such. Separate toolbox windows are absolutely unusable UI design (as if the > conventional WIMP desktop wasn't already messy enough without a zillion > toolboxes), but if you really need to have that kind of shit, why not have a > nice semantic hint for it, so that the WM can place them along the sides of > the window (perhaps in the same frame) or something? >
I didn't mean toolboxes (we already have that hint), something like "a way to do widgets that aren't clipped to their toplevel" Havoc _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list wm-spec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list