Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 
> one of the reasons to iconify is to clear up screen space.  Icons are ignored
> by the wm (regardless of wm).
> 
> Which made me think, if a shaded window is meant to be an icon, why not treat
> it more like one.  With a simple one line change I can make newly placed
> windows ignore any shaded windows open.  I know this would let me use shaded
> windows more.
> 
> So, comments?

I don't think that's a good idea.  This just leads to the "Blackbox
calls themes styles" behaviour:  something that is called 'foo' in
virtually all window managers has a certain behaviour.  Only in
blackbox, the thing that's called 'foo' does something else, and for the
user to see the behaviour, she needs to use 'bar'.

Shading is shading is shading and should not be treated as iconifying
(even if it's recommended as an iconify-substitute, as BB doesn't have
any "real" iconify, just "hide" or "vanish").

Just IMHO and my $.02
-Jan

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