[compiz] [PATCHES] Fixes for java apps and firefox in scale, switcher and wobbly

[Treviño]

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David Reveman ha scritto:
> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 19:42 +0200, Treviño wrote:
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>> I've made these patches that basically, make the java apps and firefox
>> items well being recognized by some compiz plugins (scale, switcher
>> and wobbly), I don't know if those can be considered workaround, but
>> this helps in using your desktop tools.
>>
>> Basically java apps are seen as:
>>  * name=sun-awt-X11-XFramePeer (default windows = Normal)
>>  * name=sun-awt-X11-XDialogPeer (secondary - child - dialogs = Dialog)
>>  * name=sun-awt-X11-XWindowPeer (Menus, tooltip, OSD & co...)
>>
>> While firefox items as:
>>  * type=Normal & override_redirect=1
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> These are all workarounds for apps that are not setting window hints
> correctly and I think most people agree that it's not a good idea to
> adjust our default option values for this. Feel free to add the
> workarounds to the compiz.org wiki, though.
Yeah, I suspected they were workarounds, but I don't think that either
java or firefox will release fixes soon, however you're right not
including them upstream, but I think that's a good thing for
distributiors waiting for official fixes, isn't it!?
> I suggest that you submit java and firefox bug reports for this if you
> haven't already. That way it might get fixed where it's supposed to be
> fixed.
I'll try to find time to do that, but maybe there's already something
about...

Treviño

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