Re: notification enhancements

[Nate Nielsen <nielsen-list memberwebs com>]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On 4/24/07, Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> wrote:
> 
>> Given those issues, there are obviously long-term and short-term approaches.
>>
>> In the long term, Owen suggested that notification-daemon export more of
>> a "coordination" API, that would allow multiple apps that want to pop
>> something up to say "I am showing something now" and block the other
>> cooperating apps during that time.
>>
> 
> Time to introduce a "popup manager", rather than continuing down this
> road towards
> cooperative management of override-redirect windows ?

A suggestion:

Shouldn't the window manager arbitrate stuff like window layout and
positioning? If we're going to invest in some sort of coordination, it
might as well be in the window manager rather than yet another API.

Cheers,
Nate Nielsen