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29.0.50; Fixing raise-frame on Sway

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Message #11 received at 57939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>, 57939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57939: 29.0.50; Fixing raise-frame on Sway
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:32:36 -0700

Hello,

On Tue 20 Sep 2022 at 09:30AM +08, Po Lu wrote:

> If there's anything I've learned in over 2 decades of dealing with
> windowing on GNU/Linux, it's that these mechanisms tend to be yanked
> from underneath our feet.  It sounds very risky to add support for that
> to such a basic function in Emacs.

Sway is pretty committed to interface stability, but it's a valid concern.

> And what if there are multiple frames with the same name? What frame is
> raised in that case?

Yeah, we'd need to make a more precise IPC query to get some sort of
unique handle.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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