[PATCH weston 3/8] westoy: Use subsurfaces for tooltips instead of transient windows

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On 14 November 2013 20:47, Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
>> Transients, as they existed in wl_shell_surface, have been removed from
>> xdg_shell and aren't coming back. There is a new set_transient_for request,
>> but it's more to provide something like the ICCCM WM_TRANSIENT_FOR property:
>> associating modal dialogs with their "parent window".
>
> My main concern is that this not be screwed up in Wayland. Gregory Merchan
> is also trying to get this to not be screwed up. The client MUST be in
> charge of window stacking and whether a window is mapped or not.

I think it's fair to say you've made your point now.

Cheers,
Daniel