Re: [rox-devel] OroboROX: Fullscreen and children

[Jonatan L. <th...@ho...>]

On Mon, 3 May 2004 21:39:55 +1000 (EST)
Tristan McLeay <ke...@ya...> wrote:

> If a fullscreen app brings up a modal dialog box (I
> think that's the term... one that stops the program
> from responding till it's dealt with), the program
> appears to have hung and there's not much you can do
> about it save kill it. I doubt this is the intended
> behavior. Therefore, can I suggest that OrobROX
> ensures that dialog boxes are created in front of
> their parents, esp. if they're always-on-top?

Yes, thanks for the report.
Maybe fullscreen windows shouldn't be on top at all? Or else you can't
see any other windows that pops up, not only the apps dialogues... and
when you cycle windows the newly focused windows are not visible - and
you don't know that they are focused. for example: you have two windows,
you make one fullscreen, you press alt-tab, nothing happens, you try to
un-fullscreen the window you're looking at so you press Ctrl-Alt-F: then
the other window that was previosly unvisible pops up at fullscreen
instead! Confusing and strange...

EWMH says that fullscreen windows should be on top, but I'm not sure if
I think it's a good idea.

Another thing, should fullscreen honour the desktop margins so that the
panel is accessible or not?

I have disabled the use of WIN_LAYER_FULLSCREEN now, which means that
new windows are drawed ontop of the fullscreen one (just lower it if you
want), and it also means that you can cycle through the windows without
having them unvisible under the fullscreened one...

/Jonatan - [ http://kymatica.com ]