On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:13:14PM +0600, Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > > Um, I wanted to suggest to remove the lines inside the window. > > > > Now: > > > > +-----------+ > > | | | | > > +-----------+ > > | | | | > > +-----------+ > > | | | | > > +-----------+ > > > > After the suggested change: > > > > +-----------+ > > | | > > | | > > | | > > | | > > | | > > +-----------+ > > > > This is a relic from twm. I can't think of any other window > > manager that still has these additional lines in the middle of the > > window. > > In fact, there IS a case when these lines are usable: when some > app maps a huge window, which doesn't fit to screen (a frequent case is a > Netscape driven by poorly written javascript). And with these two > additional rectangles you can at leat understand how much of a window is > on the screen when you drag it. > > BTW, what's that with these frames which "makes the code much more > complicated and slower"? The get_outline_rects() looks simple.
Without the interior lines one could simply draw a rectangle in a single call. Currently we have to draw ten rectangles. I think I can therefore call it "much more complicated" and definitely "slower" too. If you call it "much slower" depends on the point of view. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LifeBits Aktiengesellschaft, Albrechtstr. 9, D-72072 Tuebingen fon: ++49 (0) 7071/7965-0, fax: ++49 (0) 7071/7965-20 -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
