[Fwd: Bringing a Window to foreground]

[Marko Macek <Marko Macek gmx net>]

Hi!

Perhaps we should invite some Mozilla people to this list.

Mark
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• From: Ramiro Estrugo <ramiro netscape com>
• Subject: Re: Bringing a Window to foreground
• Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 12:26:06 -0700

Brendan Eich wrote:
> 
> Shaver said many WMs alreaady have hints for z-order control -- can we use those?  Akkana thought
> the ICCCM might standardize such props.  Does it?
> 
> /be
> 

I dont know about ICCCM, but I doubt it.  Even if its in the spec, a lot
of WMs probably dont implement this.

Its an easy thing to add to a WM.  As you say, most "modern" WMs (like
E, KDE) do this kind of stuff already.

I would not want to write code for each specific WM - unless the major
free WMs used the same hint scheme.

The hint scheme described in:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/classic/source/cmd/xfe/MozillaWm.h

is very simple.  

The *only* thing that would prevent a WM from adding support for this is
politics.  

-re

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