Comment 11 for bug 475373

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Cristian Klein (cristiklein) wrote : Re: [Bug 475373] Re: notify-osd uses multihead invisible area

On 07/12/2009 21:12, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> On Tuesday 08,December,2009 04:03 AM, Cristian KLEIN wrote:
>> Before, it "failed" i.e. the function returned "this window is not a
>> panel". The patch makes it returns "this is a panel, but I warn you,
>> it's not a top-panel".
>>
> But my point is that it *is* a top-panel. And notify-osd does not bother with
> non-top panels, or in the case of your patch, non-top-or-bottom panels.
>
> Please correct me if I'm mistaken.

What exactly do you mean with "non-top-or-bottom panels"? Do you mean
"lateral" panels? I don't know how many people use something like that.
And anyway, they are filtered by the next few lines of code:

if (frame.width < frame.height)
    goto failed;