Re: just-the-text Emacs frame

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:05:28 -0400 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> From: Leo <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:43:35 +0800
>> 
>> Can this pop up a frame without a title bar, much like what tooltip
>> does?

EZ> Not without some help from the display engine on the C level, AFAICT.
EZ> Tooltips are special kind of frame treated specially by redisplay.

I always thought frame decorations came from the window manager; is
there a way to tell it "I draw my own title bar"?  I think Google Chrome
does that.  If there's a frame property we can add at the C level to
hint this, it would make emacs-panel popups better and probably be nice
for Emacs in general.

I wouldn't go as far as a tooltip, though.  I think it's important that
the emacs-panel popup frames be like any other Emacs frame, simply
displaying a buffer.  That way we can use all the normal buffer-level
facilities when we display things inside emacs-panel popups, like text
properties and image overlays and UI elements.

Ted