On Monday 27 of June 2005 18:00, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > On 2005-06-27, Lubos Lunak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm. It's been my understanding that WM_TRANSIENT_FOR is generally seen > > as "that's my parent window" and that's about it. The ICCCM description > > of it keeps up with the X's tradition of being as vague as possible. > > The name of the hint is quite clear an indication of its use: transient > windows. Such things don't include toolboxes and such that can be as > long-lived as the main window.
Well, this wasn't that clear to me when looking at it in a dictionary. In fact I think I tried to ask a native speaker about what "transient windows" could mean *shrug*. And from the way WM_TRANSIENT_FOR is used it seems everybody considers it to be only "that's my mainwindow", at least I know a couple of cases where the window with the hint is hardly short-lived, yet it still qualifies for some of the meanings of transient from a dictionary. If that's wrong, we can mark WM_TRANSIENT_FOR as obsolete (as such meaning has no sense with EWMH) and need a hint for pointing to a mainwindow. -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SuSE CR, s.r.o. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Drahobejlova 27 tel: +420 2 9654 2373 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 2 9654 2374 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list
