Re: RFC: frame size hints

[Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz>]

On Monday 08 of December 2003 14:56, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 07:14, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > something broken then? What's the difference between
> > - WM gives the app possibly wrong data, after map the app checks and
> > adjusts or lives with that
> > - app itself chooses some possibly wrong data (guesses, remembers old
> > right values, whatever), after map the app checks and adjusts or lives
> > with that
>
> The WM-provided data will be right 95% of the time, especially for
> regular windows/dialogs. And a WM could in theory provide 100% correct
> info, if the WM author felt it was worthwhile or the WM was a relatively
> simple one.
>
> The app's guess can be wildly wrong - think of a large font titlebar for
> example, the app could guess half the real height.

 Oh well. I guess I can live with it after all. But I'd prefer if the wording 
more stressed the fact that the result will be just an estimate (because it's 
an evil hack).

-- 
Lubos Lunak
KDE developer
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