Re: Window Focus Problem (was Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: I dea))

[Sungjin Chun]

Hi,
Why such special treatment is needed ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Pascu" <dan@services.iiruc.ro>
To: "Adam Fedor" <fedor@doc.com>
Cc: <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: Window Focus Problem (was Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: I
dea))


> On  8 Jan, Adam Fedor wrote:
> > Sungjin Chun wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> So, the problem lies in xgps and WindowMaker both sides...
> >
> > Probably, or a misunderstanding on my part about how focus is supposed
> > to work. I have a simple (non-GNUstep) program which illustrates at
> > least one of the problems.
>
> What puzzles me is that there is code to treat a gnustep app in a very
> particular way regarding focus. This means that a gnustep app:
> 1. Will not get focused.
> 2. will never get its titlebar texture updated conforming to its
>    focused/unfocused state.
>
> In other words its treated as it never exists.
>
> I wasn't able to figure out why this behavior is necessary, and none of
> the wmaker developers put the code to do this in wmaker.
> Alfredo told me that the code to do this was sent by you as a patch and
> was added without modifications.
>
> I've disabled this particular treating of gnustep apps for the moment
> in the cvs copy of wmaker. please test and let me know how it works.
> If any of the above behavior is somehow needed by gnustep apps (I failed
> to understand the reasoning behind a treatment such as the one above)
> then let me know and we can investigate what exactly of that patch
> should be enabled.
>
> --
> Dan
>
>
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