Re: fullscreen dockable apps?

[Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow mit edu>]

miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx writes:
> 
> >      This sounds more like a window manager issue.  But, maybe there is a
> > hint (or something) that a GNOME app could give out that says, "I like to
> > be maximized to the entire size of the desktop".  
> 
> Applications can force this by using GnomeRootWindow widget as their
> toplevel window.  
> 

I don't think that does what the person who asked the original
question wanted. When you maximize the apps in question under MS
Windows, they change to the exact size of the screen but remain a
normal window which may stack above or below others, they don't merge
into the desktop. Running apps in the root window is a different,
although also possibly interesting, idea.

 - Maciej