RE: how to determine maximum possible window size?

["Vallone, Anthony" <anthony vallone lmco com>]

> Given all that, any suggestion how I could get the info I'm looking
for in at 
> least the case of GTK-on-GNOME?  That's the platform most used by the
folks 
> I'm doing this work for, and it would be nice to make at least that
one work properly.

I was recently faced with the same problem.  My software has to run on
Gnome and CDE from a Sun desktop or through Exceed/Citrix on Windows.
Some of the panels are accounted for when requesting screen size, but
some are not.

I gave up and made the maximized geometry configurable by the user.  If
the user adds panels or changes screen resolution, the user needs to
change the configuration.  I'm not happy with the solution, but I can
make my apps behave the way they are required to.

-Anthony Vallone