Re: Draft 1.9b - some comments

[Matthias Ettrich <ettrich troll no>]

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Ted Milker wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 05:58:03PM +0200, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, John Harper wrote:
> > > Matthias Ettrich writes:
> > 
> >       d) last point, but valid: MS-Windows supports that, too. Believe me: 
> >           many customers asked us for a way to get this information in a
> >           cross-plattform way.
> 
> Hmm, I'm in Windows right now, and it doesn't do anything if I bring the
> panel from autohide, up.  It doesn't resize a maximized window or anything
> of the sort.  The panel gracefully slides up over the bottom portion of the
> window.  I'd be very annoyed if it DID resize my windows.

Of course not! That's the whole point in having struts rather then just a "do
not cover"-hint. That's exactly why I brought this issue up.

Adjustment of maximized windows is only useful when the panel gets hidden
*explicitely*. Try it on either KDE or MS-Windows: Set the taskbar to be
visible all the time. Maximize a window. Set the taskbar to do AutoHide.
See Windows adjusting the size of the maximized window.

Makes perfect sense to me.


Matthias