On 5/25/05, Luke Schierer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 04:34:57PM -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > > The idea that bullet was attempting to address > > > however was window managers that restrict each application to a > > > single layer, and force you to raise or lower the layer. *shrugs* as > > > > I don't quite follow what you mean. Also, do you mean each > > application, or each window? (And for legacy apps, can the WM tell > > the difference?) > > from ICCCM, each application *should* be setting a WM_CLASS (amoung > other things). in short, yes, X can tell what windows are one > application, and thus the WM can. Interestingly, iirc, gnome already > uses this, to collapse task bar items into single instances with a > menu showing each window for that app. Oh, right. I should have known that. (Unfortunately I didn't and had to look up WM_CLASS because for some reason I thought it didn't do this) Thanks for straightening me out on this. > I think we come to sufficient agreement here: > there is a bug in gnome's implementation of DEMANDS_ATTENTION (it > doesn't actually alert users), fixing it would satisfy our ideas > on Z level and window placement level. Great, let's go from here. Can you file a bug in Gnome bugzilla and we can move any further discussion there? Cheers, Elijah _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list
