On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:37:34PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
It makes using things like gkrellm possible: I can start it, and then conveniently float it somewhere out of the way. On the other hand, for things like gkrellm, I really *want* that to remain visible when I switch workspaces.
Maybe there's a place for a per-screen decoration layer, always visible, in which I can stick clocks, status bars, GNOME panels, etc.? Hmm, maybe just things that just display information (rather than interact)? (And then maybe I could use xcompmgr or something to make them translucent?)
Let's keep the number of layers down, and just allow windows to be present in multiple workspaces.
Another (much more trivial) decoration I'd like is the number of the workspace. I guess that could use the per-workspace floating layer. (I imagine that as a translucent number in a corner, but I guess it could equally be opaque. For preference it wouldn't take focus---actually, it would be nice to be able to have some clients not participate in focus---I don't want to type things into gkrellm, for example.)
Preventing some windows from getting the focus is definitely a feature I'd like. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University