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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	 gerd.moellmann@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about üarent-frame changes
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:33:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzf832j3.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b98abbf3-b7fc-43c9-b545-c570464d3483@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:52:00 +0200")

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

>> What you describe makes sens for GUI frames, but seems to make little
>> sense for TTY frames, because frame visibility situation there is much
>> simpler.
>
> You mean because only one normal frame can be visible at any time.
> However, child frames complicate the situation considerably because
> Emacs itself has to take care of their visibility instead of the WM.
>
> For example, I can type into a GUI window text beneath a (small) child
> frame as long as that child frame doesn't have focus.  Emulating such
> behavior with text emanating at the right of the child frame on a TTY
> seems tricky at least.
>
> martin

Most of the extant popup packages that exercise child frames also retain
and reparent them across different parents, and as such, Gerd will need
to implement reparenting.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-19  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-18 10:58 Question about üarent-frame changes Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-18 14:15 ` martin rudalics
2024-09-18 14:24   ` Ship Mints
2024-09-18 18:51     ` martin rudalics
2024-09-19  5:01       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-19  8:10         ` martin rudalics
2024-09-18 14:26   ` Robert Pluim
2024-09-18 14:30     ` Ship Mints
2024-09-18 15:26       ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-18 15:32         ` Ship Mints
2024-09-18 15:22     ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-25 10:17       ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-25 11:13         ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-25 14:04           ` martin rudalics
2024-09-25 14:38             ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-25 15:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-25 18:10             ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-26  4:54               ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-26  5:01                 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-26  6:40                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-26  6:39                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-28  9:10           ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-18 18:51     ` martin rudalics
2024-09-18 15:03   ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-18 16:14     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-18 16:42       ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-18 16:15   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-18 18:52     ` martin rudalics
2024-09-19  0:33       ` Po Lu [this message]
2024-09-19  8:08         ` martin rudalics
2024-09-19  4:29       ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-19  8:09         ` martin rudalics
2024-09-19  9:15           ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-19  9:40             ` martin rudalics
2024-09-19 10:10               ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-19 11:13                 ` martin rudalics
2024-09-19 12:49                   ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-19  4:58       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-19  8:10         ` martin rudalics
2024-09-19  8:20           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-19  8:41             ` Po Lu
2024-09-19 10:30               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-19 11:13                 ` martin rudalics
2024-09-19 11:33                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-19  9:26           ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-09-19 13:46             ` Po Lu

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