On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 05:34:42PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any X application can override the WM if the programmer wants it to. > That would make it (in my opinion) pretty easy to code something > where an application could manage it's own windows.
Yes, but when you have floating, overlapping windows everyone expects look and behaviour of the WM (focus model, button placemnet ...). An older Hydrogen release I tried was not a nice experience for me, because I have placed the close button on the left side (to not hit it by accident when I aim for minimize) and use sloppy focus (+ auto-raise). Hydrogen confronted me with different button placement and click-to-focus ... Normal windows should be left to the WM at all times, what happens inside a window is a different thing (with the exception of pseudo MDI, which should be avoided). And I guess I shouldn't have used Blender's terminology at all, because of what I'm talking about is better called panes or viewports (no docking/undocking, no overlap, just resizable areas inside one window). --- Thorsten Wilms
