metacity supports an option for allowing the user to click on a window without raising it, specified in the /apps/metacity/general/raise_on_click gconf key. This is nice for being able to click on widgets in sloppy focus mode without raising the window (and raising the window only when clicking on title bar/window border). It'd be nice if compiz's gnome-window-decorator supported something similar.
This feature is now in CVS.
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