Re: moving windows above the top panel

["Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eloli hotmail com>]

> This is the wrong approach. The window manager is responsible for making
> things fit on screen. It alone has the last world under ICCCM on window
> sizes.

What if the window can not be resized because it was coded that way? And if 
it can be resized, not all widgets will be visible (or, in the case of Qt, 
it will show some Really Ugly (TM) scrolling bars or scrolling arrows). This 
is hardly a solution. The real problem here is the fact that the developers 
don't know how to write good-looking  and practical apps. A window manager 
can and only should do so much.

> If you replace metacity with a window manager you'll find a lot of these
> problems go away because the dialogues will fit when the window manager
> says "tough it will be this small" although that depends on the toolkit
> and application. Some apps just have absurdly large configuration
> dialogues.

Exactly. The bug is primarily the app developer's here. Apps and their 
dialogs must not measure bigger than 720x500, no matter the toolkit they 
use.

> Where does that statistic come from btw ?

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7440

Rgds,
Eugenia