Re: Work in Progress: draft 1.9a

[Michael ROGERS <M Rogers cs ucl ac uk>]

>> Icewm certainly does keep the WM_TRANSIENT above. The problem is with
>> application-modal windows where there is no owner window and no
>> WM_TRANSIENT.
>> (I seem to remember especially annoying behaviour where the window would
>> be raised on mouse-enter :((( )
>
>I totally agree. I consider application-modal windows bugs anyway.
>Unfortuntately it's common practice among some KDE coders.....
>
>We are trying to get rid of them all (the application-modal windows, not the
>coders ;-).
>
>btw: there _is_ a TRANSIENT_FOR, it's just that it is transient for the root
>window. I don't know if window managers should keep windows of this kind
>raised. Opinions?

I think GTK sets WM_TRANSIENT_FOR to the root window for all transients by
default, so if you treat them as modal you will probably have a lot of
modal GTK apps too.  ;)


Michael Rogers