Comment 3 for bug 205325

Yes so to add on to my last comment and pervent confusion.

1) Ensure that in the left hand corner (where the app icon is). That "allways on top" is not checked. This is a feature of metacity (which is the windows manager for Gnome).
2) Now you open a video in vlc
3) Now go to the top bar in vlc, go to Video->Always on Top
3.5) initiate option
4) Now try dragging another window over the vlc.

   If the vlc window is not on top of the other window, this is an indication that "allways on top" is broken for vlc. The reason for this is vlc depends on wxwidgets in Linux. There is a bug in 2.6 of wxwidgets & 2.8 fixes it.

Hope that should clear up any confusion. Just post if you need more info.