AW: Re: [compiz] [PATCH] minimize doesn't respect "no core instance" flag

[David Reveman]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 21:47 +0100, Danny Baumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Let me ask in a more general way:
> 
> A plugin wants to hide windows by preventing their drawing - that's all group wants to do. 
> What's the correct way to do that? From my understanding, that's NO_CORE_INSTANCE_MASK. If that's not true, what's the exact meaning of that flag?
> Another way to do that would be to just return from paintWindow instead of calling the next plugin, but I think that's a bad solution.

NO_CORE_INSTANCE_MASK just prevents the core from drawing it's instance
of the window. There's currently no way to prevent other plugins from
drawing a window and I'm not sure how an interface for doing that would
best look like.

- David