Re: [EWMH] _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_AUXILIARY

[Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov iki fi>]

On 2007-10-12, Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz> wrote:
> Currently many applications still don't support the 
> new window types 

So? They don't support that shit, so the compositing manager doesn't
really know what it should do to their windows. Tough. Better not mess
with them then.

The originally proposed AUXILIARY type as opposed to EFFECT seems 
more suited to working around crappy toolkits or such forcing a 
window type being specified. override-redirect windows _are_ 
normally "auxiliary" windows that the WM or the compositing 
manager shouldn't mess with. (Although some of them, such as 
menus, would arguably be better as managed windows.) So an 
AUXILIARY type would simply tell it again that "yes, this really
is an auxiliary override-redirect window that you shouldn't mess 
with although this hint is set for some strange reason".

-- 
Tuomo