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) Message-ID: <8807051604.AA02096@devnull.sun.com> Date: 5 Jul 88 13:56:52 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 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.