On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 00:02 +0100, David Reveman wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 22:14 +0100, Stjepan Glavina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I made a simple patch which makes switcher's window a splash window > > (_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH). This way I can easily add effects for it. > > The window is a splash window, so why not use this type instead of > > Unknown? Beryl's switcher window is a Splash window too. Is there a > > reason why Compiz uses Uknown for it? > > Splash window type indicates that the window is a splash screen > displayed as an application is starting up. I wouldn't say that this is > what the switcher window is. To me it seems like the switcher window > better match the behavior of a parentless dialog or the new notification > window type. > > A non-override-redirect window without a type hint should be considered > of type Normal, according to the EWMH spec. So as long as I'm not > convinced that some other type than Normal is more correct, I wont be > setting that hint. > > You can always look for the "_SWITCH_SELECT_WINDOW" hint if you really > need to determine if a window is a switcher window. > > -David > >
Can switcher's window be of any type so that we can easily add effects to it (like wobbly or fade)? Maybe Utility? Stjepan _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
