Re: Motif Hints [was: Re: Fwd: Draft 1]

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On 21 Jun 1999 18:07:09 -0400, Matthias Clasen
<clasen@pong.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:

>> * tool windows: Microsoft calls it: "A window intented to be used as a floating
>> toolbar [....] it has a titlebar that is shorter than a normal titlebar and the
>> title is drawn using a smaller font. [...]"
>> 
>> *tiny ( a stupid name, I admit): similar to naked, but the WM provides a small
>> visual frame around it so that the window can be easily resized / move /
>> accessed.
>
>Sorry to insist, but you described them again in terms of the decoration 
>you want to assign to them, ie visual, not logical.

The purpose of some of these hints may be to achieve a visual, not logical
effect. Don't discount them _just_ because they specify an appearance.

-- Elliot
You're not being rude. I'm just a moron.