On Sunday 29 May 2011 19:26:05 you wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Sunday 29 May 2011 18:42:28 Sam Spilsbury wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, > >> > >> Someone just sent me an email, and I followed that by filing a bug[0] > >> asking about stacking order, namely how to get always-on-top windows > >> to stack above fullscreen ones for the eg, on-screen-keyboard case. It > >> seems like in the EWMH that this case is not handled, since it asks > >> for fullscreen windows to be above _NET_WM_TYPE_DOCK and > >> _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE windows [1]. This doesn't make much sense to me, > >> and I'm wondering what the correct implementation here is. > > There is somewhere a note that fullscreen windows are on top of everything > > else in case they > > are focused and are restacked below above and dock windows if not focused. > > This is also > > how kwin handles it. E.g. you can raise Yakuake (using above) over a > > fullscreen window as it > > will get focus immediately. The dock is also put on top of the fullscreen > > window in that case. > > > > Yeah, this is how compiz handles it (at least for the docks). I guess > my question is more pertinent to the case of what we do with above > windows which are not in focus along with fullscreen windows - do we > stack them below the on-focus fullscreen window (breaks the on-screen > keyboard case) or do we stack them above? My understanding is that such windows should be stacked below the fullscreen windows. The on-sceen keyboard is a use-case not yet in existance when the EWMH was written and looks to me like we need a new flag for those.
Cheers Martin
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