On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 23:53, bulia byak wrote:
Hello,
>Changed transient policy to 0 as a default. Seems to fix the sawfish bug.
Are you sure everyone wants it as the default? This is a serious change that
should have been discussed on the list first.
When I first implemented transient dialogs a couple months ago, everyone
seemed pleased with that, and this sawfish complaint is the first one ever
received about that feature. I think sawfish users can easily set it to 0 in
their local configs, while the majority of users will be disappointed to see
that unsinkable dialogs are sinkable again.
I would also prefer that we retain unsinkability as the default.
However, I would like to see a resolution to the sawfish issue before
the release, and our three choices are:
1. revert unsinkability
2. introduce custom window decorations that are guaranteed to be
present
3. find some constellation of WM hints that makes Sawfish (and other
affected window managers) do what we need
[ If it is possible to determine the current WM, an option for any of
these approaches might be to construct a whitelist of WMs that will do
unsinkability properly the simple way, and possibly introduce
workarounds for others. ]
One extra thing that would be nice, based on the testing, is a visually
obvious way to sink/hide/collapse these windows. But that's icing at
the moment since we're so close to a release.
So... any ideas?
-mental