Add _NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED to _NET_WM_STATE

Rui Tiago Cação Matos <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:01:54 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.wm-spec
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Hi,

I'm proposing that we add a new _NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED hint to
_NET_WM_STATE. The goal is to be able to do something like [1].

We decided not to use the existing _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW property since
it would mean that all clients would have to listen for changes on the
root window properties and also because _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW allows for
at most one window while _NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED can be set for any
number windows.

I'm attaching a patch against the 1.4.draft-2 xml file that I got from [2].

Comments are very welcome.

Rui

[1] http://gitorious.org/gnome-design/gnome-design/blobs/master/mockups/theming/unfocused-window.png
[2] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/wm-spec

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net-wm-state-focused.patch (text/x-patch, 1.5 KB)

diff --git a/wm-spec-1.4.xml b/wm-spec-1.4.xml
index 98f9f9b..2518824 100644
--- a/wm-spec-1.4.xml
+++ b/wm-spec-1.4.xml
@@ -1117,6 +1117,7 @@ _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN, ATOM
 _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE, ATOM
 _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW, ATOM
 _NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION, ATOM
+_NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED, ATOM
 ]]></programlisting>
       <para>
 An implementation MAY add new atoms to this list. Implementations
@@ -1207,6 +1208,17 @@ the window got the required attention (usually, that it got activated).
 	</para>
 
 	<para>
+_NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED indicates that the window is being presented as
+focused. This is purely an hint about how the Window Manager visually displays
+the window, in particular it's unrelated to input. Clients MUST regard this as
+a read only hint which they can't change.  The window given by
+_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW will usually have this hint, but at times other windows may
+as well, if they have a strong association with the active window and will be
+considered as a unit with it by the user. This hint generally corresponds to
+whether window decorations are drawn in an active state.
+	</para>
+
+	<para>
 To change the state of a mapped window, a Client MUST send a _NET_WM_STATE
 client message to the root window:
 	</para>
@@ -2267,6 +2279,9 @@ Added _NET_WM_FULL_PLACEMENT.
 			<listitem><para>
 Added _NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS.
 			</para></listitem>
+			<listitem><para>
+Added _NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED.
+			</para></listitem>
 	        </itemizedlist>
             </sect2>
  	    <sect2>