Re: No focus on map hint

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:22:52AM -0800, Rob Adams wrote:
> OK if people are satisfied with the suggestion I think that it should do
> the trick.  Here is a patch:
> 
> --- wm-spec.sgml        2003-03-02 23:16:40.000000000 -0800
> +++ wm-spec.sgml.no_focus       2003-03-14 09:20:07.000000000 -0800
> @@ -1205,6 +1205,25 @@ _NET_WM_HANDLED_ICONS
>         for iconified windows.
>         </para>
>      </sect2>
> +       <sect2><title>_NET_WM_MAP_TIMESTAMP</title>
> +       <programlisting><![CDATA[
> +_NET_WM_MAP_TIMESTAMP CARDINAL/32
> +]]></programlisting>
> +       <para>
> +Read by the window manager when the window is mapped. If the property
> +is set to a non-zero value TIME, the application is declaring that the
> +window was mapped due to a user action at server timestamp TIME. If
> +set to a zero value the window was mapped for some other reason
> +(i.e. not caused by the user directly).
> +       </para>
> +       <para>
> +Rationale: This property allows a Window Manager to alter the focus,
> +stacking, and/or placement behavior of windows when they are first
> +mapped depending on whether the new window was created by a user
> +action or is a "pop-up" window activated by a timer or some other
> +event.
> +       </para>
> +    </sect2>
>  </sect1>
>  <sect1>
>         <title>Window Manager Protocols</title>
> 

Could we also add text like:

 When launching an application, the DESKTOP_LAUNCH_TIMESTAMP
 environment variable may be set to the timestamp of the user action
 causing the launch. Applications may choose to honor this environment
 variable by setting _NET_WM_MAP_TIMESTAMP to its
 contents. Applications should unset the environment variable after
 using it, to avoid transmitting it to their child processes.

You should send me a login/crypted-passwd for freedesktop.org CVS too
if you haven't, so you can commit this stuff after we agree. ;-)

Havoc