Bug 52859

Summary:	remove hack that disables "keep panel below other windows"
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component:	gnome-core	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	alexl, rvokal
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Description Bill Nottingham 2001-08-30 03:18:02 UTC

Panel->Miscellaneous->Panel treatment

One option is: Keep panels below other windows.

Notably, this keeps it below the nautilus desktop. :)

Comment 1 Alexander Larsson 2001-08-30 14:29:09 UTC

That setting is sort of random. It places the panel in the "desktop layer",
meaning that nautilus and the panel is in the same layer. Then the window
manager randomly selects which window is at top.

The feature itself can be useful (polling around the office two people use it),
but maybe we should add a gruesome hack to make the panel stay over nautilus.
Otherwise it is hard to recover from this state.

Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2001-08-30 15:20:49 UTC

A gruesome hack isn't needed; there is a window layer above the desktop and
below the normal windows. We can set the panel in that layer. So this is a 
one-char fix, like s/2/3/

There's some risk it will confuse the hell out of Sawfish. I'll 
test out the change and see if it looks safe.

Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2001-08-30 15:42:15 UTC

Ouch, it turns out the panel is already setting the between-desktop-and-windows
hint,and nautilus sets the desktop hint. So this is a Sawfish issue.

Comment 4 Havoc Pennington 2001-09-04 20:31:24 UTC

*** Bug 52738 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Havoc Pennington 2001-09-05 16:55:36 UTC

gruesome sawfish workaround added to gnome-core 1.4.0.4-37

need to remove the gnome-core hack when sawfish is fixed

Comment 6 Havoc Pennington 2002-03-05 19:31:39 UTC

 Should be fixed in 1.4.0.4-43