On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 04:31:52PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > this is somewhat problematic. The netwm spec says that a common step in > > "window activation" is to raise the window and I have implemented it this way > > at the moment in cvs. > I'm very sorry to hear that. This is one of the core features I use in > Blackbox. Another related question (a question about definition, really): Does Alt-Tabbing past a window activate it (for a brief moment)? If so and you want to stick to the letter of the netwm spec, I would like to see windows put back in their place after Alt-Tabbing past them (not easy, I would think). If not, then I say that, yes, windows should be raised upon activation but not by Alt-Tabbing past.
> > I fail to understand the need to have a window that is > > focused but unusable because it is covered. > I will position two windows so that I can read the > information in one and type into the other. This normally means that > the window I'm reading from is unfocused, but topmost, and that the > window I am typing in is focused, but not topmost. I do this as well (I usually explicitly raise/lower windows.). Sometimes I even like to leave the keyboard focus on a top-most window and use the mouse in a window partially obscured by it. True, this is weird, rare, and not amazingly useful; I wouldn't weep if I lost the ability to do it. > > If you look at window switching > > on other operating systems and other wms in unix land you will see that > > raising is common practice. Right. But that's only raising at the end of an Alt-Tab-Tab-Tab sequence. I don't want a window I'm not interested in to auto-raise just because it was on the pop-up list of windows before the one that caught my interest. -- least surprise argument weaker if based on other platforms Mark P Sullivan http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/~msulliva/# # # # # #To a wonderful universe [EMAIL PROTECTED]# # # # # # #to improve myself and my universe ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
