<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Derek Foreman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:derekf@osg.samsung.com" target="_blank">derekf@osg.samsung.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
</span>Well, X calls similar functionality "UrgencyHint"... That's actually<br>
more descriptive than imperative. The idea is that we let the<br>
compositor know the surface needs attention, not that we tell it what to do.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That was because the word "raise" was already used for a different API. The hope is that Wayland can avoid such mistakes. <br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Programmers shouldn't be trying to figure out how to raise a window<br>
anyway, they should be searching for words like notify. But if we put<br>
the word "raise" prominently in the documentation, I guess google should<br>
sort it out for them. ;)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That will probably work. I guess "present" is ok, though I am very very worried that enough people with some clout in writing extensions will not be convinced that this is what "raise" should do, and will add another api to do "raise". <br><br></div></div></div></div>