Re: Composite Manager Specs

Around 0 o'clock on Nov 22, Matthew Hawn wrote:

> Has anyone thought about a specification for Composite
> Managers?
> 
> It would be nice to have a standard interface between
> Composite Managers and Window Managers from the start.

I'm still not sure making them separate is the best plan in the long run. 
Performance of everything *except* window manipulation seems pretty good 
so far, and merging the compositing manager and window manager together 
should fix that.

However, I can see value in semantic labeling of the window manager frames 
for all kinds of things like screen readers and magnifiers.  Perhaps we 
can start with some conventions for that and see where it leads us.  In 
particular, it would be nice to know which windows are menus, which are 
dialogs and which are just visual effects.  Might be nice to know which 
window is currently active.  These semantics seem independent of the 
separation of compositing from window management and yet could be useful 
for that as well.

-keith