Re: Pending 1.2 stuff

["Matthias Clasen" <Matthias Clasen poet de>]

> So I think you may be right; what we were originally saying is that
> _FLOATING would be "the kind of window xmms and gkrellm are," and in
> that case we could just leave it up to the WM to establish how such a
> window relates to dock windows and other kinds of window.

So does this point to the need for a separate semantic type for
"the kind of window xmms and gkrellm are" ? If so, how would that type
be described ?

> There is one other possible use of "on top" I've seen, which is for
> dialogs that you might want to keep on top for some reason; one case
> of this is say the ssh-add password dialog on login, maybe you want to
> keep that above other apps that start up on login.

I think this could be handled by setting the urgency hint and have the wm 
keed urgent dialogs above normal windows at startup.

Matthias