Window Strip and KWin

[Marco Martin]

On Sunday 13 November 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > > I just see two difficulties to discuss:
> > > 1. How to mark the home screen window so that it is the first one?
> > 
> > isDesktop()? I recall we have a method like this somewhere, you probably
> > know a lot better where than I do.
> 
> no it is not a desktop in the traditional sense. If it were a desktop it
> would be kept underneath all other windows.

a new window type?

> > 
> > Right now, we use XAtoms and pass -- I think -- absolute screen
> > coordinates. Maybe we can still have some mechanism like this, I mean
> > it's only about one rectangle on the screen which doesn't even change
> > all that often. New API though, I guess.
> 
> might be a solution... having an X atom and when it is set, we put the
> window in front of the list. Zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe :-) (No idea
> what's that idiom in English, so sorry to the non-Enlish speakers)

hmm, more like current thumbnails...
xatom and a window id, so there wouldn't be needed to update the position when 
the panel gets dragged, so there shouldn't be that annoying lagging behind.

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Marco Martin