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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: panel keyboard navigation, focus handling and NET_WM
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-06-28 11:02:26
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On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:55:55AM +0100, Richard Moore wrote:
> 
> 
> Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > P.S.: Speaking of always_stay_on_top windows, is somebody working on
> > > implementing support for NET::StaysOnTop in kwin? I heard the NET_WM spec is
> > > not very clear about always_stay_on_top windows but the fact that a state for
> > > such windows is defined in the NET namespace makes me assume that this is
> > > wrong?!
> > 
> > The NET implementation in KDE was slightly altered by Brad in me (that usually
> > happens when somebody implements a spec for the first time). We are trying to
> > get stays-on-top in, but currently some window manager authors disagree that
> > this is an important feature.
> 
> One thing to be careful of is that full screen windows should cover
> everything even those that would normally stay on top. This is a
> problem when using full screen mode under kwm.

Real support for full-screen in the wm would be even better :)

> > We'll keep it in the NET classes anyway, Anything that doesn't get the
> > "official" approval will be marked as KDE extension. The system tray stuff
> > belongs to that current, to mention another example.
> 
> Where are the NET classes? I would like to make the Java stuff use
> the new facilities, but I can't find the API.

kdecore/netwm.*

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