On 7 Nov 2006, at 08:11, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
Hi
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
That's interesting, I thought the only way a window could change
window
levels was by the setwindowlevel: message.
I thought the same until I checked. The documentation suggested
that behavior but was not completely explicit, so I looked at the
X backend code to confirm it.
The other interpretation (that ordering of windows relative to
each other only worked for windows in the same level) seems a bit
more intuitive to me.
It actually might be worth checking what MacOS-X actually does,
and consider changing the GNUstep behavior if it does it the other
way.
There seems to be a little debate about this one (re: message from
Sheldon Gill). I'll have to dig a bit deeper on this, but I think
the MacOSX notes are ambigious too (IIRC).
Well, in answering your question about the gui/backend interaction in
GNUstep, Sheldon has just said how he thinks it *should* behave
rather than how it *does* behave. If you want to 'fix' the windows
backend to work better with the gui now, you need to implement the
actual behavior rather than a potential future behavior.
However, his idea of how it should behave is perfectly reasonable ...
and I would probably support moving to it if (and only if) it's the
way MacOS-X behaves ... once we have checked what the impact/breakage
of changing behavior would be and if we got consensus/majority in
favour of changing. Perhaps very few apps actually depend upon the
existing behavior and changing would be pretty painless.
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