Re: questions on the gworkspace desktop

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2005-01-21 23:03:55 +0200 Alex Perez <aperez@student.santarosa.edu> wrote:

> Enrico Sersale wrote:
> > On 2005-01-19 03:41:51 +0200 Alex Perez <aperez@student.santarosa.edu> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > WindowMaker 0.91 (and, to a lesser extent, 0.90) are completely NET_WM 
> > > compliant window managers. This is I implore Enrico to test this stuff, 
> > > since, doubtlessly some behaviors have changed.
> >
> > Done.
> > The interesting thing is that it seems that with 0.91 no trick is needed to 
> > make a window omnipresent. This because -back does it for us; 
> > XGServerWindow already sets the _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP atom for a 
> > window at NSDesktopWindowLevel.
> > The only thing to notice is that it seems that you must add to your 
> > NSWindow something as:
> >
> > - (void)orderWindow:(NSWindowOrderingMode)place
> >            relativeTo:(int)otherWin
> > {
> >     [super orderWindow: place relativeTo: otherWin];
> >     [self setLevel: NSDesktopWindowLevel];
> > }
> >
> > -setLevel: used in other places doesn't seem to work.
> > So, I've leaved my XDesktopWindow.bundle in place to be used with 
> > WindowMaker < 0.91 (or other window managers, I suppose) but it does 
> > nothing if you are using 0.91.
>
> It would be nice if you document that...

Or there is a bug in my English or it's too late but I don't understand what I 
should document :-)
Why -setLevel: seems to work only in -orderWindow:relativeTo: or why I leaved 
the XDesktopWindow.bundle in the sources?