Re: "full screen" windows

[Philipp Lohmann <Philipp Lohmann Sun COM>]

I'd agree with that statement in principle. But did you mean that there 
should be no presentation window type or that there should be no full 
screen override redirect windows or that transient <-> override redirect 
needs no definition ?

Regards, Philipp

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Am 16.08.01, 19:32:39, schrieb Jim Gettys <jg pa dec com> zum Thema Re: 
"full screen" windows:

> ---
> I've been noting occasional discussions of the order:

> "The following window manager is broken: here is a kludge around to
> the window protocol stuff to avoid that bug."

> While sometimes necessary, there lies long term design madness:
> most things people use these days are open source window managers.
> Lets fix them rather than kludging up the protocols as much as 
possible....

> At least at the moment, the time from bug fix to widespread deployment
> is low (as opposed to the X destop of 4 years ago, where change was
> glacial), so lets reset our expectations and avoid kludge arounds as
> much as we can...
>                               - Jim