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foreign toplevel: support for desktops/workspaces

I do not have much hope of this being standardized/implemented anytime soon, but I still wanted to write this down just so that it can be referenced:

In EWMH we had _NET_WM_DESKTOP which allowed task bars to render only the windows from the current desktop.

Currently there is no standard way to do task bars in wayland. The best thing we have is wlr-foreign-toplevel-management, which AFAIU is currently under discussion as ext-foreign-toplevel-state (see !196). Neither provides something similar to _NET_WM_DESKTOP. I think they should.

Edited by Tobias Bengfort
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