[PATCH] [RFC]Shell: Hide panels when compositor has a top fullscreen surface.

[Juan Zhao]

  On 02/15/2012 06:02 AM, Bill Spitzak wrote:
>>  4.For now, popup surface is treated as regular surface, when popup 
>> surface got on top of fullscreen surface,    panels will be unhidden.
>
> That sounds extremely obnoxious. Especially if the panel obscures the 
> object being clicked to bring up the popup menu! I would change it to 
> not show the panels if there is *any* fullscreen surface. 
For the user experience, we will do it this way eventually, don't worry 
about it.

Popup window over fullscreen window: panels will be hidden

    https://gitorious.org/dataforuse/dataforuse/blobs/master/PoverF.png
<https://gitorious.org/dataforuse/dataforuse/blobs/master/PoverF.png>

Only when un-fullscreen window over fullscreen window, the panels will be shown
    https://gitorious.org/dataforuse/dataforuse/blobs/master/nFoverF.png
<https://gitorious.org/dataforuse/dataforuse/blobs/master/nFoverF.png>


Thanks,
Juan
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