Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:53:33 -0500 Sasha Vasko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > > >>Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >> >> >>>On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:17:35 -0500 Sasha Vasko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>babbled: correct. now the problem. (semantically). xterm asks for >>>100x25-0-0. gravity is SE. it changes font size to a larger font. ok. fair >>>enough. NOW user moves xterm to top-left of screen. xterm starts using an >>>even bigger font. what now? the gravity is SE even though technically that >>>was only a useful gravity at map time. one the window moved from the SE >>>corner... it wasn't such a hot idea anymore to now make the window resize >>>up and to the left. it's highly problematic even for the wm if it wishes to >>>obey the gravity hints and even calculate its own new x & y - does it obey >>>the window gravity hints, or does it go "well - they don't apply anymore" - >>>and what can clients expect such behavior to be... ? >>> >> >>It was user who explicitely requested SE gravity. So if user moves >>window into different corner he/she still expects window to follow it. >>If it goes off screen after resize - that's what user requested. If you >>want to empower user - add functionality to window manager to allow >>changing gravity for any open window. > > > well they requested the window to star in the bottom-left of the screen, but > now they moved the window, they have no way to change that request. implicitly > i would say their desire now is to have it have NW gravity - BUT, there is no > facility to change that explicitly for the user, and as best i last read - the > wm shouldn't be freely changing how it interprets gravity (though in this case > that would be very useful). the problem here is that the app may do things > bases on Se gravity with respect to its own window contents. but now the wm > may > have switched to NW gravity.
How could possibly an app use its win_gravity for its contents ? The one and only purpose it serves is top-level window position, and as I say - an app has no business messing with that. _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list wm-spec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list
