Are tool tips always top-most? -Darin
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Dean McNamee <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
