seprate window management component
Bill Spitzak
spitzak at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 15:26:26 PDT 2011
Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Still the clients should not know about the windows of other clients
> so they would not know how their windows stack and not knowing that
> they can't really decide it either.
I don't think the clients will know about any windows other than a few
ids that the compositor tells them about. By default they can only put
windows immediatly above or below another window they own, or put them
at the top/bottom of the stack by passing None for the other window.
> They should be able to decide relative stacking of their windows so if
> a document window is raised, the client is notified of that, and the
> client responds by raising its toolbar windows it might work.
The client needs to be able to do the raise, it can't just respond to
the raise from the compositor. This is because it may want to raise or
map other windows above the raised one, and this must either be done
first, or atomically with, the raise of the main window. If this is not
done, the floating windows will blink which is unacceptable.
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