On 05-Jun-2002 dan radom wrote: > i've noticed with alpha8 that new windows are placed over shaded windows. > i'm using right to left and top to bottom window placement. on an empty > workspace i open a new window. it's placed in the correct position. i shade > it and open another new window, and it's placed right on top of the shaded > one. pervious releases would place the new window directly below the shaded > window. is this intended? >
yep, it was discussed on this list about a week ago and has been in cvs since. The idea is according to the ICCCM and other standards a shaded window is in the "iconic" state. Most window managers ignore icons. >From my own experience and talking to users people like shaded windows but find they do not help much because new window placement considered them. So they still wanted iconification. The hope is that allowing people to shade a window and have it act like an icon and thus be ignored may reduce the desire for different icon access. Again in my own use and experience this patch simple means that the new windows do not cascade (tile) as fast as they used to.
