new hint for EWMH

Tapani Pälli <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.wm-spec
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,
I would like to suggest a new hint '_NET_INPUT_AREAS' for EWMH to be
used by window managers and toolkits. This hint would be a list of
rectangles representing bounding boxes of the input methods on the screen.
This allows a toolkit to place it's temporary windows (that might have input-entries)
like popup-menu's so that they won't cover input-method areas and user
can interact with those windows.

I have suggested to have this patch for Matchbox window manager :
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333

Maemo Gtk+ (and likely other embedded solutions + desktop tablet pc
users) are interested to have this hint.

Waiting for your input,

// Tapani Pälli
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