I've been out of the loop and not paying much attention. Recently recompiled E17, and now I find that what I always though was the wrong fullscreen behaviour is now forced on my work around to. Let me explain.
A long time ago it was decided that "fullscreen" in E17 means that the window pretty much takes over your entire view, with no way of getting out of it. I argued that it was bad at the time, but did not prevail. So since then I have most of my common applications set to fully maximised, with no border, and usually set to the bottom of the stack. Then remembered, so I don't have to keep setting those things up over and over. This effectively sets them to fullscreen, but avoiding the whole "fullscreen means no way out" nonsense. By now way out I mean, unable to switch to some other desktop, unable to iconify, and unable to change to some other size. Now I find that with some of my faked fullscreen windows, the iconify and maximise stuff is not in the window menu. If I want to iconify them I have to switch to a border that has the iconify button, and switch back when I make it fullscreen again. This happens with eterm and Second Life, but not Claws mail and Xchat. Seems that alt tab is not working either, so one more way out is blocked. Actually, I can't see anyway of binding that to a key anymore. Can I have the choice of a fullscreen mode that does not mean the fullscreen takes over control and leaves out options please? In other words, "fullscreen JUST Means the window is the size of the screen, with no border". Even for the expected use case, fullscreen games, I still think that "fullscreen means total control by the app" is wrong. Far too many of these fullscreen games are unstable, and that means you spend a lot of time rebooting to recover if you want to try out a big bunch of games like I did recently. /me retrains himself to use the keyboard iconify shortcut. I know, I've become curmudgeonly. lol
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