Notes from "New OSD in Plasma 2"

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Tuesday 21 January 2014 14:26:59 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> > I had a look and the Plasma side seems fine. You can verify using xprop.
> > My
> > 
> >  demo dialog got the notification type.
> 
> Hmm...I might have been wrong then, using xprop on the OSD I get
> 
> _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _KDE_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_OVERRIDE,
> _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_NORMAL

That's not what I had. My example code which I wrote this morning for testing: 
http://pastebin.kde.org/phhnfbtda

I executed the code using qmlscene. Maybe that makes a difference.

> 
> Which I don't understand as the Dialog code looks fine and it goes through
> "NETWinInfo::setWindowType(..)" setting the notification type properly.
> 
> Also if the type is "Normal", shouldn't it have normal win decorations? I'm
> getting a borderless window (unless that's actually done by some inner kwin
> stuff).

No, the type is _KDE_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_OVERRIDE, normal is just the fallback 
for all other window managers. Override is our window type hint for "don't 
decorate me".

Cheers
Martin
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