Re: keyboard focus

On 2007-01-24, Renee Klawitter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is it possible to have the float, that has no keyboard input expanded
> (don't know if there is an "official" other word for it) ? i.e. see my
> opera window in full size but type in my partly hidden emacs ? 

No. It wouldn't be a lot of work to add a function that momentarily
lowers a frame: there's the generic rqorder function, that's just
missing an implementation on WTilings. However, the stacking order
would likely be reset the moment anything else is done on the layout.
Just switching the workspace could reset it, if an stdisp is used. 
To maintain the layout, the architecture should be changed considerably
again, and I don't want to do anything of the sort in relation to Ion3
anymore. Just finish it quickly, work on other things, and get back
to Ion in the form of Ion4 in a few decades :) or so.

I've actually been thinking, that a fish-eye view of the presently
partially hidden window, might be nice. Especially if the program
could provide a focus point itself, so that things under the cursor
are not much distorted, but they get more distorted towards the 
edges (that often contain unimportant controls etc.). This kind
of things, of course, demand the use of XComposite or such...
*sigh*, another mostly undocumented X API to learn... which will
probably delay the work on Ion4 for yet another decade, as a lot
of ideas I am starting to have for Ion4 almost depend on it.

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Tuomo