Re: [Notion-general] Panels with notion?

[David G. <dg...@co...>]

Arnout Engelen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 01:14:49PM +0100, David Given wrote:
>> I would like to use Notion with Gnome. (Don't laugh, okay?) (And right
>> now this is all in floating mode.) 
> 
> How do you create a floating workspace? This appears to have become an
> undocumented feature. I think we should document it :).

Er... I think I just closed all frames and it Just Happened. I know it's
possible, I did it back in the Before Time, but haven't done it
recently. (Currently I have a bunch of defwinprop { float = true } to
float windows over the frames.)

Anyway, slight background: what I want to do is to configure Notion to
be, by default, a floating window manager, and then add frames for
specific windows only. There's too much stuff these days that doesn't
get on well with frames. The amount of time I've spent trying to figure
out why my wireless wasn't working, because the 'Enter Wireless Key'
dialogue had appeared squashed into the tiny frame containing
stalonetray and I hadn't seen it, isn't funny.

[...]
> For me, in a normal tiled workspace, loading mod_dock causes gnome-panel
> to open as a proper 'panel' instead of as a normal window.

This is with Gnome 3 in fallback mode, which creates panels top and
bottom (and then I have gkrellm off to the right). I did spend some time
fiddling with mod_dock but there's no documentation for that either. I
think I did manage to get it to swallow a panel once but it then
expanded to fill 2/3 of the screen...

[...]
> For a tiling workspace, i think it makes sense to ignore this request. For a
> floating one, it'd make sense to honour it indeed. Could you submit a feature
> request for this?

Where's good? (I'm also wondering whether the defwinprop stuff is
flexible enough to support this without needing any core changes.)

Also: nautilus tried to claim the root window and I ended up with a
gigantic floating window. A floating workspace is about the only time
when a root window is relevant in Notion, so I'm not surprised it's not
supported. Would this be easy to change?

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