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by Elv13 1046 days ago
> It's a little buggy in the 4.3 tree

I was working on fixing some of those bugs last weekend. Can you clarify which annoys you the most so I can add unit test later this evening? tl;dr; The main problem is that the z-index stack and client ordering list are global and this cause changes to one tag to affect another. I am moving those structure into per-tag trees rather than global stacks.
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natrys 1046 days ago
> client ordering list are global and this cause changes to one tag to affect another. I am moving those structure into per-tag trees rather than global stacks.

Yup that was exactly the problem and how I solved it too. If I remember correctly if workspace1 has client A and B, and workspace2 has client B and C (B is common), global stack means if I switch from 1 to 2 while focus was on A, while in 2 if I ever switch focus to B, then I when I come back to 1 I would find that focus moved from A to B, which can be annoying.

While I have you here, do you think 4.4 is still years away? Is there an ongoing documentation of API changes?

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Elv13 1046 days ago
> While I have you here, do you think 4.4 is still years away?

I/we were never very fond of releases to be honest. All it does is to fragment the number of version in the various LTS distribution, which makes support a pain (vs "the official version" and "git-master"). Also, I don't have that much time these days, so getting a release out is impractical. I am aiming for the Ubuntu 24.04 cutoff for packages.

> Is there an ongoing documentation of API changes?

`git log` ;). But also, just compare the official release doc with the development one. There's over 1k changes. The largest one being the documentation itself. Then a rewrite of the notification and wallpaper APIs are also rather large improvements. Everything is backward compatible, so there should not be any nasty surprises.

> Yup that was exactly the problem and how I solved it too. If I remember correctly if workspace1 has client A and B, and workspace2 has client B and C (B is common), global stack means if I switch from 1 to 2 while focus was on A, while in 2 if I ever switch focus to B, then I when I come back to 1 I would find that focus moved from A to B, which can be annoying.

Annoying, but also like >10k lines of code/tests/doc to "fix". It will take a lot of effort to get this PR merged without behavior changes or regressions... That global stack goes back 15 years and everything depends on it's exact behavior. It's as ossified as it gets.

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