Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!SUN.COM!dshr
From: dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Transient Shells and AWM (w/ followup question)
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Date: 5 Jul 88 13:56:52 GMT
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It seems pretty clear to me that AWM is wrong.  Asking the user
to rubber-band out the space for a transient window,  which is
intended to be something like a dialog box,  has to be wrong.
Would you want to be interrupted in order to stroke out the
space in which an application was to ask you "OK to exit?"

I cannot understand why any window manager would ask the
user to interactively size any WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window,
irrespective of the setting of the USPosition or USSize hints.
I would be prepared to forbid this in the Inter-Client Communication
Conventions Manual.

Using override-redirect on Transient pop-ups is definitely
wrong.

	David.