Unresponsive applications

[Bill Spitzak]

Sam Spilsbury wrote:

> I won't weigh in in this discussion any further as this topic has been
> discussed to death, but I do want to clarify this - Windows does use
> compositor generated backgrounds and merely allows the client to
> specify which parts they will override drawing and where the client
> drawing in the frame should start [1]. I'm not going to comment on
> whether or not that's better solution than CSD because I do not wish
> to get involved in the debate, but I do wish to clarify that.
> 
> [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms748975.aspx

By "client" I am including any dll/so/library that is also running in 
the address and process space occupied by the application program. That 
may be the source of a lot of confusion, including what you are saying. 
"client" means everything that happens without a kernel task switch.

What I want is for all the synchronous communicate to be limited as much 
as possible to inside the same process and address space, and not have 
to use OS api. I realize that to literally follow this rule we are 
limited to overlapping windows in the compostor, but as that is still 
the primary api, and it does not make tiled windows any worse, I see no 
reason to not use csd.

I think if there was a real solution to multiple processes then all the 
widgets could be drawn by different processes. There is nothing special 
about window borders, your MSDN example shows that they even have 
extremely complex borders that the client wants to control.