Hey Darin, I'm a bit familiar with this problem. From what I understand, the window manager doesn't get a chance to handle popup windows. The problem we have with the status bubble now, is if chrome is not on top (it's behind some other window), and you mouse over a link, our status bubble popup comes up over the window in front, since a popup wants to be topmost.
We would probably have to try to manage the stacking order ourselves, since the window manager can't help with this situation. I personally think what Evan is proposing is simpler and good enough, additionally Linux users aren't going to expect this behavior of things moving outside the main window. It's nice on Windows, but I don't really think it's worth the work on Linux. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: >> I see... there has to be a way with window manager hints to make this work >> :-) > > I hope so, too. I played around with it for a while in a test app, > and then decided that doing it Right was going to be a lot of effort > and I'd be better off fixing gaping holes than polishing this. I made > it extra-ugly just so nobody would take it too seriously. > > We might be getting a 20% who's written a window manager before; I was > trying to interest him in this problem as a starter project. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
