RE: [Interfacewm-discuss] Implementation of spawned windows...

[Mondragon, I. <ian...@ba...>]

hmmm - sounds kinda familiar...

IWMWindow contains an IWMTitlebar which contains IWMImages.

:-) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris B. Vetter [SMTP:cb...@kn...]
> Sent:	Friday, September 27, 2002 11:06 AM
> To:	int...@li...
> Subject:	Re: [Interfacewm-discuss] Implementation of spawned
> windows...
> 
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:44:56 -0500
> "Mondragon, Ian" <ian...@ba...> wrote:
> > i've banged my face into this problem so many times i hate to think
> > about it.  the problem all boils down to this:
> > 	the windowmanager places the decorations (titlebar, buttons,
> > 	resizebar) on a client window & manages it.  the NSWindow class
> > 	drops hints to the windowmanager (via the motif hints) about
> > 	what decorations should appear, because it assumes that a
> > 	windowmanager (being a separate entity) is already running.
> > 	translation: really bad chicken/egg situation.
> > at one point i had been considering hacking the GNUstep source to make
> > it all work, but it's just a big hairy mess.  while poseAs: is just an
> > evil concept, this does seem like the exact type of situation that it
> > was designed for.
> > thoughts?
> 
> That's exactly where I got stuck too, actually. One thing I thought
> about trying is to use a core window, referring to the actual X11 window
> containing the 'context' and implementing title- and resizebar as an
> NSWindow using NSImage for buttons, depending on the WMHints sent by
> GNUstep (or application).
> 
> -- 
> Chris
> 
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