[sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> | 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?

Oh, I had missed the "focused" bit of this parth of EWMH:

"focused windows having state _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN"

I'm more convinced about this approach after having played with it in
GNOME (with fullscreen applications like terminal, totem and
epiphany). As far as I can tell so far the only issue is to keep the
frame always on top, but there are ways to deal with that.

Sayamindu, what do you think? Should we experiment with this approach?
Give it a try in GNOME...

Marco