Re: [EWMH] _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_AUXILIARY

On Nov 26, 2007 8:53 AM, Lubos Lunak <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 of November 2007, Giles Atkinson wrote:
> > It seems to me that these would be better defined as one of the multiple
> > documented values of _NET_WM_STATE rather than the single value of
> > _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE. Looking at the existing defintions, TYPE specifies the
> > UI semantics of a window, while STATE defines various, possibly temporary,
> > properties it may have.  These requests for special treatments by the
> > compositing manager looks far more like STATEs than TYPEs to me.
>
>  I agree with the semantics vs properties part, but I think the problem is
> just the naming. I don't see how either of these two "states" could be
> temporary - they are both for special type windows and only for them.

In the case of a window doing its own fade-in or fade-out effect, it
would be temporary, and the window could be treated normally the rest
of the time. Thus, I agree that it's more of a state than a type. I
still don't have a good name for it, though.

  Mark