From christian.lynbech at ericsson.com Fri Jan 9 09:00:58 2004 From: christian.lynbech at ericsson.com (Christian Lynbech) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 10:00:58 +0100 Subject: [eclipse-devel] icon problems Message-ID: I have a silly annoyance with icons. The insists on sitting on top and clicking on a window that overlaps with an icon does not bring the window on top. What I would like is for windows that are opened or brought to front to stack on top of anything else, including icons. I am pretty sure that it has not always been a problem. Can it be easily fixed, or could somebody point me in the right direction? ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Christian Lynbech | christian #\@ defun #\. dk ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - petonic at hal.com (Michael A. Petonic) From hatchond at labri.fr Fri Jan 9 10:20:03 2004 From: hatchond at labri.fr (Iban Hatchondo) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 11:20:03 +0100 Subject: [eclipse-devel] icon problems In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3FFE8053.40508@labri.fr> Christian Lynbech wrote: > I have a silly annoyance with icons. The insists on sitting on top and > clicking on a window that overlaps with an icon does not bring the > window on top. > > What I would like is for windows that are opened or brought to front > to stack on top of anything else, including icons. Since eclipse honor the :_NET_WM_STATE_{ABOVE, BELOW} we have three "layers" in the windows stack. This meen that a window without the :_NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE cannot be put on top of a window that has this state. This is kind with panel stuff or with application like xawtv that allow you to watch tv in a small window and propose you a "stay on top" option (you don't want then that when you scroll your emacs it comes on top of the tv window) > I am pretty sure that it has not always been a problem. Can it be > easily fixed, or could somebody point me in the right direction? As you noticed it has not always been a problem. I think I brought that when I introduce the stack layer. The thing is that icons arn't in any layer. I'll see what I can do. Iban. From hatchond at labri.fr Fri Jan 9 14:33:33 2004 From: hatchond at labri.fr (Iban Hatchondo) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:33:33 +0100 Subject: [eclipse-devel] icon problems In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3FFEBBBD.4050208@labri.fr> Christian Lynbech wrote: > I have a silly annoyance with icons. The insists on sitting on top and > clicking on a window that overlaps with an icon does not bring the > window on top. > > What I would like is for windows that are opened or brought to front > to stack on top of anything else, including icons. > > I am pretty sure that it has not always been a problem. Can it be > easily fixed, or could somebody point me in the right direction? I would propose to fix it the following: - when you click on an icon it comes on top of anything else. - when you release the mouse button after a move (otherwise the application get de-iconified) the icon window priority goes back at the bottom of the stack (above any desktop application of course) sounds good to every one ? Iban.