Re: Implementing child frames on terminal

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:
>
>> What?  Completion popup is a misuse of child frame?  Then what its
>> supposed to do?
>
> IMNSHO child frame support (on X) is actually a misfeature, and
> completions should be implemented with an override-redirect toplevel
> window instead.

"override-redirect toplevel window"?  I can't understand.

>
> The reasoning behind this conclusion is the sheer amount of code we
> spend trying to force toolkits (GTK in particular, but also Xt) and the
> X server (in the case of the X input extension) to play nice with
> supposedly "toplevel" windows being a child of an actual toplevel
> window.
<#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign>

-- 
Akib Azmain Turja

Find me on Mastodon at @akib@hostux.social.

This message is signed by me with my GnuPG key.  It's fingerprint is:

    7001 8CE5 819F 17A3 BBA6  66AF E74F 0EFA 922A E7F5