panel: show new toplevels as inactive by default#292
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If the newly created toplevel is the active one, we will get notified explicitly (via the "state" event). However, if a toplevel is opened in the "background", no event will be sent, and we should not show it as active.
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I realized that currently, the panel's window list implementation assumes that a newly opened toplevel is always "active". If this is not true (i.e. a toplevel opens, but is not focused, e.g. using the option from WayfireWM/wayfire#2627), then the panel will display two active toplevels:
This PR fixes it by setting the state to inactive by default until a "state" event is received. This results in correctly only one toplevel displayed as active: