Re: Proposal: _NET_WM_STATE_MINIMIZED

[Elijah P Newren <newren math utah edu>]

On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 11:29, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> >  I personally think it'd be the simplest if we introduced STATE_MINIMIZED 
> > simply for telling the taskbar about the window's state
> 
> What does STATE_MINIMIZED mean though, different from HIDDEN?

This may be horrendously stupid (I just don't have enough experience
with specs and window managers to know yet), but I'm throwing this idea
out anyway:

How about STATE_MINIMIZED = 'HIDDEN in "canonical" way'.  A current
example of "non-canonical" hiding is SHADED, thus for now,
   STATE_MINIMIZED = HIDDEN - SHADED

another "non-canonical" hiding could come from what I understand Sun's
Looking Glass stuff does; where the user could rotate the window depth
wise so only the side of the window is visible, similar to closing a
book and placing on a shelf.  Say we call this hiding method SHELVED. 
Then we would have
   STATE_MINIMIZED = HIDDEN - SHADED - SHELVED

Is that a useful idea at all?