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. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
