Re: Sheet and Drawer widgets

[Daniel Brockman <drlion deepwood net>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> It's possible a sheet is not different from a modal dialog - perhaps
> it's as simple as changing the window manager to handle modal dialogs by
> making them sheets?

In a sense, window managers like ratpoison [1] already do this.

Ken's sheets and drawers demo works well with ratpoison, by the way:
The sheets show up as regular modal dialogs, and the drawers show up
as regular nonmodal dialogs.

I was a little worried that it wouldn't, because a lot of applications
that try to do fancy stuff with window placement, etc., end up being
completely unusable in ratpoison.  (One of the worst examples is the
font editor xmbdfed, which keeps trying to *animate* itself into its
preferred size.)

So thanks, Ken, for being friendly and not trying to outsmart the
window manager.  :-)

-- 
Daniel Brockman
drlion deepwood net

[1] http://ratpoison.sf.net/