Re: Applications and layers

[Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz>]

On Monday 09 of June 2003 13:27, Billy Biggs wrote:
>   I've had a user request for more explicit layer modes in my
> application, and I'd like some comments from this list:
>
>  
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=744951&group_id=64
>301&atid=506987
>
>   I'm curious about the intended application behavior for setting
> _WIN_LAYER and also _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE/STATE_BELOW.
>
>   My thought is that I should not allow these as options to the user,
> but rather use them as tools for implementing specific features.  This
> user seems to want to have enough command line and run time options to
> roll their own application modes.  Is this the role of the application,
> or the window manager?  Is it intended that every application have some
> -layer option to indicate which layer they should start on?
>
>   Also, is _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE the same as the "ONTOP" layer?  In KWin,
> I set always-on-top from a menu in the title bar, and that seems more
> appropriate to me.  I could see this also for below.  If that's true,
> then I could remember the layer across sessions and I think that would
> be safe, and that might be a good practical use of the _WIN_LAYER hint.
>
>   Finally, I've been doing some running-on-the-root-window code, and I'm
> wondering how this relates to WIN_LAYER_DESKTOP.  Should I be setting my
> window to that layer if I'm 'running on the root'?  Also, KDE has its
> own window for the desktop, will using WIN_LAYER_DESKTOP make sure I'm
> above that, or could my window get stuck behind that?  Maybe this is
> worthy of another thread.

 Only the _NET_* things are from this spec. WIN_LAYER_DESKTOP etc. are(?) from 
GNOME. So you're mixing two specs together.

-- 
Lubos Lunak
KDE developer
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