Re: _NET: Disabling shading

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 03:24, Denis O. Mikhalkin wrote:

> The way to notify the user about important background actions requiring
> attention has been asked from AWT for some time but we wern't able to
> provide the implementation since it is not widely supported. I really
> would like to see it a part of the _NET protocol - since, as being said,
> ugrency hint is not well supported, I think that the _NET equivalent
> will be more respected by implementors.
> 

Lubos used a _NET_WM_NEEDS_ATTENTION or something like that hint when
implementing the USER_TIME stuff for his reference implementation in
KWin.  I had intended to use the same hint for the same purpose when I
do the metacity implementation.  I propose that this hint be added to
the specification.

-Rob