Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>  How important is the functionality offered by detach.lua? Could it
> be improved?

[ disclaimer : I'm the author of most of the things in detach.lua ]

Well, detach.lua allows two great things for me :

* people who don't use ion don't laugh at me anymore when I open a
  small popup in a fullscreen application (that's more or less the
  opposite of the problem of transient in too small windows : you get
  a huge window, with, eg, two small buttons on the sides).

* I can continue using the background application even with a
  transient on top of it, and I can use several transient with the
  same application.

I'd say I rediscovered ion3 after detach.lua existed, the main
drawback of ion for me had gone away !

The main problem of it is that it puts the windows in a float
workspace which is shared between the workspaces (it is on the layer2
of the _screen_). When dealing with several applications using
transient on different workspaces, this is a problem.

-- 
Matthieu

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