Re: Interaction between applications and compositing managers

[Olivier Chapuis <olivier chapuis free fr>]

Soeren Sandmann a écrit :
> Olivier Chapuis <olivier chapuis free fr> writes:
>
>
> > I do not know, GTK and QT developer can surely answer (I found the
> > notification type a bit out of topic).
> >
> > But:
> >
> > (1) It will be useful to know for which window the  override-redirect
> > window is for. Either we can add, in the spec, that the WM_TRANSIENT_FOR
> > hint should be set for override-redirect windows or add a new hint, say
> > "_NET_WM_UNMANAGED_FOR", similar to WM_TRANSIENT_FOR.
> > This can help a compositor which makes some persistent transformations
> > on windows (as Metisse or Looking Glass).
> >
> > (2) I think that using a new property "_NET_WM_UNMANAGED_TYPE" (and then
> > NET_WM_UNMANAGED_TYPE_DND_WINDOW ...etc) will help to avoid
> > confusion.
>
>
> Both very good suggestions.
>
> I'm not sure what you meant by the comment about the notification
> type, though. Do you not think notification windows should be a
> separate type?

Yes maybe. But IMHO  override-redirect window should not be used for
notification or I do not understand the type of notification
you talk about. Any way this is not important for a preliminary
discussion.

Regards, Olivier