Re: GNUstep and compositing?

[Truls Becken]

Germán Arias wrote:

>> Also there seems to be the issue of an application stopping before
>> unregistering it's windows. How will that be handled?
>
> Are you referring when an app is closed, and this have windows
> miniaturized?

I believe Fred meant that if an application suddenly dies, the slots
for its AppIcon and MiniWindows will still be registered as occupied.

Another issue is that this protocol does not allow the taskbar to be
moved or hidden, which also means it cannot implement layers. Would it
be feasible to add a way to tell running applications to move or hide
specific icons? How would one avoid screen flicker when moving a dock
that holds icons from a dozen different apps?

Then, if applications displayed icons *only* if a process had
registered for managing them, things would start to look really bright
since fiddling with defaults would no longer be necessary.

-Truls