Wayland's Window Stacking & Raising Design

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wayland's Window Stacking & Raising Design

Besides tool-kit advancements, other happenings in the world of Wayland this week pertain to coming up with a suitable window stacking and raising design for this next-generation display server...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA0NDY

[ua=42]

I hope this translates to "We won't let applications steal focus and pop on top of the window you are using". :-) Always good to hear that Wayland is making progress.

[89c51]

is Bill Spitzak doing work (payed) for Canonical ????

[plonoma]

This seems like something where you can get very good inspiration from Khronos.
They already made some standards that do compositing and other stuff.
http://www.khronos.org/ (EGL and OpenMAX in particular)