Re: Re: _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE and _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN

On Sunday 29 May 2011 19:26:05 you wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sunday 29 May 2011 18:42:28 Sam Spilsbury wrote:
> >> Hi Everyone,
> >>
> >> Someone just sent me an email, and I followed that by filing a bug[0]
> >> asking about stacking order, namely how to get always-on-top windows
> >> to stack above fullscreen ones for the eg, on-screen-keyboard case. It
> >> seems like in the EWMH that this case is not handled, since it asks
> >> for fullscreen windows to be above _NET_WM_TYPE_DOCK and
> >> _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE windows [1]. This doesn't make much sense to me,
> >> and I'm wondering what the correct implementation here is.
> > There is somewhere a note that fullscreen windows are on top of everything else in 
case they
> > are focused and are restacked below above and dock windows if not focused. This is 
also
> > how kwin handles it. E.g. you can raise Yakuake (using above) over a fullscreen window 
as it
> > will get focus immediately. The dock is also put on top of the fullscreen window in that 
case.
> >
> 
> Yeah, this is how compiz handles it (at least for the docks). I guess
> my question is more pertinent to the case of what we do with above
> windows which are not in focus along with fullscreen windows - do we
> stack them below the on-focus fullscreen window (breaks the on-screen
> keyboard case) or do we stack them above?
My understanding is that such windows should be stacked below the fullscreen windows. 
The on-sceen keyboard is a use-case not yet in existance when the EWMH was written and 
looks to me like we need a new flag for those.

Cheers
Martin

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