Re: fullscreen dockable apps?

[Max Watson <redline pdq net>]

At 06:32 PM 3/24/98 +0100, vertigo wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a little question/suggestion. I don't know if i'm saying something
>stupid or inappropriate since i'm not a gui-developer but merely a
>potential end-user :)
>
>I was wondering if Gnome has/could have something like fullscreen dockable
>applications. 
>
>When you aximize certain applications in Win95 or NT, they sort of
>completely dock on your desktop, making them totally fullscreen.
>It's a functionality i have really missed in X11 when i started paying
>attention to Linux. Maximizing a window in X11 doesn't feel the same, you
>still see the edges of the windows, and you're still able to move the
>window around, etc etc..
>
>In win95 it really "clicks" solidly (sp?) in place, which in my opinion,
>works for some application types a lot better then all the toolbars and
>windows floating around on the avarage X desktop. If a similar feature
>would become available in Gnome it'd be pretty cool imho. I don't know the
>technical implications of such a thing though, it's just a suggestion from
>an end-user perspective for a feature that i would really like to see :)
>

The wm I use (icewm) does this. Well. It is so satisfying to have the
default maximize do the expected, rather than that weird vertical-max only
style of fvwm. Of course, this doesn't work with most vt widgets. :(
Check out: 

http://ixtas.fri.uni-lj.si/~markom/icewm

M.Watson redline@pdq.net