Re: panel prelight on focus
- From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- To: John Harper <jsh unfactored org>
- Cc: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>, Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>, GNOME Desktop Hackers <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: panel prelight on focus
- Date: 19 Mar 2002 16:41:44 -0500
John Harper <jsh unfactored org> writes:
> If possible I think it's best to keep this specialized logic out of the
> window manager.
That's the whole point of _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK, though - to
special-case docks. You have to do so anyway to get the key navigation
between docks to work correctly (Alt+tab, etc.), there is no way to
have a window manager that doesn't understand the whole "dock" thing
or have a policy on how dock focus/keynav will work.
> There is only one panel but n window managers so it's
> more likely to work correctly that way.
I don't think we should optimize for that. We should make things work
correctly with window managers that implement the whole WM spec, and
extend the spec as required. If N window managers want to implement
the spec then great, if they don't then we don't support those
configurations.
There's no way to get all the little behaviors right otherwise.
> But if this kind of special casing is required, we should make sure it
> works correctly with the KDE panel (which presumably is also of type
> DOCK)
Yep - the WM spec needs to have at least implementation notes on this.
Looking at KDE (2.2 I think) it doesn't appear to be possible to focus
the panel at all...
Havoc
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