Re: How to temporarily hide a window

[Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz>]

On Tuesday 10 of June 2003 17:04, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:40:09AM +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote:
[snip]
> >
> > I'm pretty sure there's a thread about this in the archives that
> > agreed on a solution. I know we discussed it for GTK+, at least, maybe
> > that's what I remember. I thought we discussed it here though.
>
> I think you're thinking of the discussion in
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66754
> We also had some discussion on this list a year back:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2002-April/msg00006.html

 Yes, I've found this on in the archives too.

>
> > Anyway, one option you didn't mention is having the toolkit retain the
> > state of the window. Though at a brief glance it looks like GTK will
>
> Yes, that was the outcome of the discussion: the toolkit is responsible for
> restoring the ewmh state
> if it want to use the withdrawn state for temporarily hiding windows.

 Perhaps this should be noted in the spec. Only one question then: Can I lean 
on the fact that some new version of the spec won't suggest removing another 
property which my app should save when temporarily hiding a window (because 
current version of the app of course won't do so)?

-- 
Lubos Lunak
KDE developer
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