---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: cat <zixo...@gmail.com> Date: 2011/5/6 Subject: Re: client side decorations To: Kristian Høgsberg <k...@bitplanet.net>
2011/5/6 Kristian Høgsberg <k...@bitplanet.net> > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:14 PM, cat <zixo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> "Window management policy" should also be client-side. I may not have > been > >> clear about that. The wayland compositer almost NEVER moves or raises or > >> resizes a window. Clients do this in response to clicks or whatever. > This > >> would have made it TRIVIAL to implement Gimp the way they intended, as > at no > >> time would an image window raise above their toolbars, since they > control > >> both of them. > > > > > > I wouldn't use wayland if thats the case, the kind of security risk this > > creates is massive. you could have clients that refuse to cooerate and > > always take up the entire screen, or worse, rendering your computer > useless. > > also I never like muti window apps like the gimp, or openoffice. they > draw > > your attention away from what your doing to rearrange these little > windows, > > and what ever you do don't close them or would could spend the next hour > > trying to get them back. there sould always be central system for making > > windows behave or they won't > > I don't know what window system you're currently using, but if you're > using X, hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace now, because it has all the same > problems. > that key combination has been disabled in Xorg by default for a while, which is extreamly annoying because X runs rather well without a config. also a new problem is that programs that lock up like to take focus and the only way to recover then is the magic sysrq keys. really I have just gone back to using the power button. atleast that still cut off power after 4 seconds. And you should go read my reply to Peng, because it applies to you too. > I like some of the suggestions that have been put forward. but Bill made sound as though wayland clients should do everything by themselves. why then use the compositor? > > Kristian >
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