Peter wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:02:23 +0900, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
> wrote:
> 
> snip...
> 
>>again - the big problem is that many apps - even major ones, do not provide
>>sane ways to differentiate their main windows vs. subwindows and dialogs etc.
>>if titlebars change as they do with web browsers - then that property is not
>>useful to use to match up a window. often icon name changes too like the 
>>title.
>>the app could set a role property - but it doesn't (role of the window is a
>>dialog or whatever). unless apps play along and provide ways to differentiate 
>>-
>>-we are stuck. the problem is this is an entirely hackish inexact science to
>>guess what is what. often its just not possible at all - sometimes it is
>>possible if u dig through enough properties. there could be room for more
>>heuristics to figure such things out - but right now they are not there.
>>
> 
> 
> All right. As a final thought, e16 handles this fine and does not exhibit
> the problems I described here.
> 
>>From an e16 snapshot file:
> NEW: evolution-2.4.Evolution-2.4
> NAME: evolution-2.4
> CLASS: Evolution-2.4
> RES: 1600 1200
> XY: 0 15 0 0
> 
> This only affects the main evo window. Any subwindows are not affected.
> Good Luck and thanks for taking a look.
> 
Maybe the reason why this works in e16 is that each "snapshot" only is 
applied to one matching window, whereas the e17 settings are applied to 
all matching windows (like the e16 windowmatches).

/Kim


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