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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Q: 1.1: panel & taskbar stay on top
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-02-13 17:16:49
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On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Alexei Dets wrote:
>Hi!
>Matthias Ettrich wrote:
>> 
>> Well, you could try to find this out yourself: A taskbar and a panel serves the
>> purpose to switch between windows and desktop. This cannot be done if the
>> (small) area on the screen used by the taskbar is covered with other windows.
>> Therefore it was a bug that the panel didn't stay on top in previous versions
>> of KDE and many people reported this a bug.
>
>Yes, Matthias, you are right that kpanel must stay on top. But do you
>think that new windows must appear under kpanel? Its place must be
>reserved and one can place windows in this area (under kpanel) _only_
>manualy.

I don't get it, sorry. Whenever kwm places a new window, it takes care about
the taskbar. 

However, when a appliction, may it be session management or stupidity, asks kwm
to be placed on a certain position, kwm HAS to do this. I once had some clever
code (because of Netscape's placement) to ignore these settings if it is below
the taskbar, but other people complained....

But hey, people complain all the time, I'll add the magic again: If the PPos is
crap, I'll place the window according to the user's placement policy.


Thanks for the input,

Matthias



>
>	Alexei

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