Re: Standardizing ConfigureRequest vs. size_inc hints

[Dominik Vogt <dominik vogt gmx de>]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 03:59:52PM +0200, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Btw. 
> 
> another interesting use case for these width-for-height geometry managment 
> issues are
> panel-like apps which are basically non-resizable, but allow for 
> horizontal/vertical orientation.
> 
> With the current size hints, there is no way to specify this. With 
> _NET_WM_NORMAL_HINTS,
> you could do it simply by specifying two WM_NORMAL_HINTS structs, the 
> first
> having 
> 
> min_width=w
> min_height=h
> max_width=w 
> max_height=h
> 
> the second having 
> 
> min_width=h
> min_height=w
> max_width=h
> max_height=w

Excellent idea.  I'm beginning to like this.  Now if there were
also a way to indicate that the requested geometry should include
window decorations ...

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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