Re: new hint for EWMH
Lubos Lunak <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.wm-spec |
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On Monday 30 of July 2007, Tapani Pälli wrote: > 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 I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the hint correctly - why not simply add a new window type for these windows? Could you post a description for the hint as it should be included in the spec? -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: [email protected] , [email protected] Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 972 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http//www.suse.cz