Re: Extensions interacting with windows

["Grizzly(Francis Smit)" <grizzly smit id au>]

Dan Winship wrote:
> On 01/25/2010 02:20 AM, Jon Nettleton wrote:
>   
>> The windows are easily accessible by code under global.window_group.  We
>> can add actors to that group and they show up behind windows as they
>> should, temporarily.  Within the compositor there is code that syncs the
>> stack of actors with the stack of windows.  It is never taken into
>> account that there may be non-window actors within the group, which in
>> turn ends up with all window actors always stacked below non-window
>> actors.
>>     
>
> There was a little bit of discussion of this in the context of fixing
> the bugs involving the stacking of the panel relative to other windows.
> (Eg, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582653, "notification
> area tooltips appear under shell panel".) One problem that comes up in
> the general case, but not in your lightboxing case, is being able to
> receive events on the non-MutterWindow actors in window_group.
>   

so are you saying there is a notification area in gnome-shell because
the icons don't show there