Re: Add function to make frame topmost?

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:10 AM, David De La Harpe Golden
<david@harpegolden.net> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
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>> How does "Urgency" work? Is that appropriate for reminders? I would
>> prefer that to be a frame that pops up but does not get focus until
>> the user choosen it.
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> A reminder sounds more like a notification than an urgent window.   But
> n.b. the window type might still be the wrong level, I'm now vaguely
> wondering if you might be wanting system tray balloon notifications for
> which there are typically high-level apis.
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> http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-0.1.html#balloon


I am not sure that systray must be invovled here. Perhaps there are
some specification for just balloons as a notification style? That
could perhaps be integrated easier with Emacs frame, ie perhaps an
Emacs frame could look like a balloon.


> (note that gtk then has its implementation/wrapper for systray support,
> GtkStatusIcon, i.e. an even higher level might be appropriate for
> toolkit-using emacs)
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> Ading systray support to emacs was discussed in the context
> of daemon mode a while back, maybe it's worth another look now.
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