dons@cse.unsw.edu.au (Donald Bruce Stewart) writes: [...]
In fact, this is really nice! Great work Jason. This is very exciting: it makes some apps (gimp!) a lot more usable.
I agree. Transient frames work nicely. More nicely than with ion3, actually (in ion3 I think there's only one floating layer, so transients were visible in all workspaces which is often irritating). 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?) 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.) [...]