Re: Composite Manager Specs

Around 12 o'clock on Nov 23, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> > However, I can see value in semantic labeling of the window manager frames 
> 
> EWMH already has a lot of this.

EWMH doesn't label the window frames at all, so agents interested in 
semantic content of top level windows must grub through the window manager 
frame to find the application windows.  Pushing the labels up to the 
frames themselves will let external agents watch the state of the system.  

It may be that most of what we want is to mark the frame with the 
application window so that it's easy to monitor the EWMH values without 
requiring that the window manager copy values around.

I'm also thinking about how we might improve the performance of the 
top-most window in a compositing environment; I'm wondering if we can't 
somehow make it possible to flip between automatic and manual update modes 
on the fly.  Hmm.

-keith