Re: Some questions raised by 131010

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

Neil Stevens wrote:
> The problem with CSDI is that the popular window managers can't handle it 
> very well.  Operations like hiding and moving an application to another 
> desktop become inconvenient.

So what are we waiting for? Why don't people just improve the window 
manager? Why not just implement "raise all associated windows when one 
Gimp window is brought to the front" in Metacity? It can already do that 
with dialogs and utility windows, so how hard will it be to do the same 
thing for normal windows?


> CSDI worked well on a Mac because its window manager was designed for and 
> essentially forced, that behavior for all apps.  The menu bar acted as the 
> control window for each application.

So why not (partially) copy MacOS's "window manager"? I don't see what's 
keeping people from doing it. Why would anyone NOT want that kind of 
behavior? It can only be an improvement.

I'm mostly talking about Metacity. It IS the default GNOME window manager.