Re: [STUMP] transient frames

[Michael Raskin]

>
>Otherwise, I'm not sure what this question asks. Either:
>
>- I think you're asking to be able to, in stump parlance, have windows
>  that are managed in stump's frames, and then have a layer of floating
>  windows on top of the frames?
>
>- Alternatively, I think you may be asking for stump to, when a new
>  window opens, dynamically create a frame, and shrink the current frame
>  so that all the window space is used, and then when the window closes,
>  re-adjust the frames to continue to use all of the space without the
>  "transient window."
>
>The first option is **very** difficult to achieve in Stump (to the best
>of my knowledge,) if it's even possible at all. I'm not aware of *any*
>window managers that have this behavior. Furthermore as features go, I
>don't think that it would be terribly useful or productive, but I might
>not understand it totally.

First option doesn't match the design of StumpWM data structures well, 
it is true. Xmonad has floating layer, wmii has floating layer, some 
other WMs do. It is not hard if you want this for some reason, but you
need to do things differently.