Notify applet borders issue

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 04 August 2008, Chani wrote:
> On August 3, 2008 13:21:58 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 August 2008, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote:
> > > 1. Add Notify applet  to panel
> > > 2. Press Ctrl-F12
> > > 3. Wait for some notification to come (or trigger it manually)
> > > 4. It will appear in place it would appear normally - when panel is
> > > shown. but no panel is shown when dashboard is on.
> >
> > ah.. well.. that's no good =)
> >
> > note that when COMPOSITE is on, however, that it will appear to be in the
> > right place ...
> >
> > but.. it has the wrong z ordering. it should not be above the dashboard!
> >
> > (also, i wonder why the dashboard isn't going away when it pops up in
> > that case ... hm hm hm ... maybe something going wrong in
> > DashboardView::activeWindowChanged()? ah, no! it's not the active window,
> > is it! hm.... interesting corner case ... )
> >
> > in any case, the probable solution is to make it so that it does not show
> > above any full screen windows.
>
> but then what would happen if I put it on my screensaver?

on a somewhat related note, maybe the notification applet should be one of 
those excluded from screensaver by the security model?
(thinking about notifications done by an im session for instance)

Cheers,
Marco Martin