Re: Re: GPE/matchb

On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 08:36, mallum wrote:
> on Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 11:55:43PM +0930, Robert Mibus wrote:
> > > Personally I'm not in favour of making appmgr any more "special",
> > > particularly if the window manager would have to be in on the deal. If
> > I agree more-or-less fully - not more "special" than any other program
> > *could* be; I don't mind having it set extra WM hints and such ;)
> >
>
> Well it thinks its special in *refusing* to close when politely asked
> to by the wm. Sorry couldn't resist ... ;)
:P

BTW that's an option in latest CVS; no UI for it yet though...

The best ideas I've come up with so far to keep *everyone* happy:
 * hide-on-close, popup only on button press or no-other-windows-exist
   - icky, have to sit in a loop waiting for other windows to close,
etc.
 * 'send to back' on close
   - what if it's the only app (logout maybe??)
   - mallum will still probably thing it's evil :D

> > > you want appmgr to be the central point, it might be better just to add
> > > an option for it to be a desktop window.
> > I'm not so sure about this - IIRC this would stop the top matchbox
> > appbar thing from being shown, which would make it impossible to get
> > back to <random non-menuified app>.
> >
>
> But doesn't appmgr behave like some sort of task manager switching
> to already opened apps in a palm os style hackery way ? Couldn't you
> use that to get 'back to' apps ?
Sounds good, *except* what about apps not launched by appmgr?
Windowtitle would seem good, except that then (A) the apps still need a
menu entry and (B) the windowtitle needs to be correct.

The best I've seen so far was a WinCE machine with a 'Running' tab -
maybe appmgr could query for running windows & appicons and put them all
in a tab...?

> -- Matthew
mibus

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