Re: 1.9d

[Marko Macek <Marko Macek gmx net>]

Tim Janik wrote:
> > >also the 0xFFFFFFFF is superfluous (besides obviously hackish), this is
> > >exactly what _NET_WM_STATE_STICKY is meant to indicate.
> >
> > Not true - 'sticky' indicates that the window should not move when moving the
> > viewport. 'Desktop 0xffffffff' indicates that the window should appear on all
> > desktops.
> 
> so you want to distinguish between viewport-scrollable sticky windows and screen
> sticky windows? can you give an example where this is actually usefull?

I am not sure about that. I don't care much about viewport scrolling.
 
> and why don't we have _NET_WM_STATE_STICKY and _NET_WM_STATE_SCROLLABLE_STICKY
> to indicate this then (with one state taking precedence over the other)?
> (_NET_WM_DESKTOP is still the wrong place for this, since for both sticky
> behaviours, _NET_WM_DESKTOP is a meaningless property).

Having "occupy all desktops" just a simple value for _NET_WM_DESKTOP
makes perfect sense to me.

Mark
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