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From: kk@shasta.tivoli.COM (Kerry Kimbrough)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Motif app window decorations under OLWM
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Date: 9 May 91 18:15:27 GMT
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   > In a future release of olwm,
   > transient windows:
   > 
   > - will have a title bar and resize corners, but no close button or pin

I find this very unsatisfactory. I want a transient window to be a standard OPEN
LOOK window --- base window or pop-up window. According to the above, it would
be neither. Seems to me the natural form of a transient window in OPEN LOOK is a
standard default command window --- pin (initially unpinned), title, no resize
controls. 

   > - will not have their own icon, but will iconify with their owner

OK as a default, but why can't this be controlled by the application using the
window group hint?

   > - will optionally be kept stacked above their owner window, controllable
   > via a resource

Good idea.