[sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

Benjamin M. Schwartz bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu
Fri Sep 19 14:28:03 EDT 2008


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Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
| On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
| <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
|> Let's keep thinking about this.  For example, I wonder what Metacity does
|> to a window that is both  _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN and
|> _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW?  Does it stack it below the Frame, if the Frame is
|> _NET_WM_TYPE_DOCK and _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE?  If not, could we convince the
|> Metacity developers that this is a good idea?
|
| I just thought of a worst problem with the FULLSCREEN approach.
| FULLSCREEN windows are always on the top of NORMAL windows.

Why is this a problem?  When do we need an Activity to be visible,
full-screen, and yet below a NORMAL window?

- --Ben
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