On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 09:21:52PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > 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.
I use shaded windows as a medium-state between full and iconified windows. I can still cycle to them, I can _see_ them on the screen, and they can still accepts keyboard input. I do not like the new behaviour, as shaded windows now lose their visual indication of the window's presence. If one wants to hide a window completely, shouldn't one jsut iconify it? The window placement only considers the title bar of the shaded window, so the difference is only minimal (visually, that is), is it not? Cheers, Tim
