Re: Context help: what's this?

[Paul Warren <pdw ferret lmh ox ac uk>]

On 1 Dec 1999, Owen Taylor wrote:

> [ Going off a bit on a tangent on the subject of what-is-this help -
>   Xdnd people CC'd ]
> 
> Matthias's suggestion covers the WM-spec issues of decoration
> and informing the window to start the operation. It is perfectly
> sufficient to implement what Microsoft has. However, IMO, the
> Windows implementation is lacking in a couple of ways:
> 
>  - Context sensitive help is confined to a single window for a single
>    operation.
>  - Context sensitive help doesn't give any feedback during the operation

[...]
> 
> Thoughts? I suspect we'll do this internally for the GNOME implemenation,
> even if it isn't a standard. But if people think the ability
> to make the operation global is useful, it would be good for it
> to be a standard thing.

As far as the spec goes, i would suggest that we can put Matthias' basic
suggestion in the first release, and leave the DnD stuff till the next
iteration.  Shouldn't be too hard to put the basic protocol in in an
extensible manner,

cheers,

Paul