On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are tool tips always top-most?

Yes.

>
> -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.
>>>
>>> >>>
>>>
>>
>

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