Re: _NET: Disabling shading

[Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz>]

On Wednesday 01 of October 2003 13:57, Dominik Vogt wrote:
[snip]
> > > >  On the other hand, I wouldn't mind extending WM_TRANSIENT_FOR to be
> > > > able to point to more than one window, as I actually recently
> > > > encountered a problem related to this WM_TRANSIENT_FOR limitation.
> > > > I'll try to write a patch for the spec and post it.
> > >
> > > I would really like to not extend WM_TRANSIENT_FOR anymore and to
> > > introduce some special property related to this. WM_TRANSIENT_FOR has
> > > been designed to serve other purposes.
> >
> >  As far as I know, WM_TRANSIENT_FOR is usually understood as "this is my
> > main/superior window". In which case wouldn't this be good enough for
> > modal dialogs?
>
> I don't think any change is necessary.  Using a "locally active"
> focus policy would allow the application to control focus within
> its own windows

 If this is true, why do we have STATE_MODAL then? IMHO it's good to have WM 
support for modality (if nothing else, it at least doesn't flicker then).

> and no application must be allowed to take
> control over the whole desktop.

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Lubos Lunak
KDE developer
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