On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 22:53 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > Don't rule out extending the window manager spec (EWMH) to make this > work; my guess is that it's going to be necessary to get all the details > right. > > One line of thought along these lines is a window manager hint that > essentially "binds" two windows together at an anchor point (e.g. "left > side of this window goes to right side of this other window"). > This could cover both sheets and drawers. > > Also you could have a _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DRAWER, > and _NET_WM_WINDOW_STATE_DRAWER_OPEN, things like that. > > By putting the drawer open/close process in the WM, it can be animated > nicely. > > The WM could draw the frame around the drawer and integrate it into the > overall window frame. That's the approach I took when I did drawers in Metacity last year. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-October/msg00710. html That code is massively bitrotted, but it's totally doable. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
