Re: Review: FULLSCREEN_MONITORS Hint

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Hi,

Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  SetInputFocus is something different - it does something, it sets the focus. 
> Setting a property does not change a window geometry.

Maybe a shorter version of my other mail: I think FULLSCREEN_MONITORS 
_does_ set something. If there's any UI for modifying 
FULLSCREEN_MONITORS, then the checkboxes or whatever will have a current 
state. And inside the WM, there will be a current value for 
FULLSCREEN_MONITORS stored in the client window data structure. This 
info is distinct from the geometry, and sometimes needs to be displayed 
or treated as such. The request+state-property approach makes this state 
visible to pagers and apps, instead of keeping it inside the WM.

Deducing the state from the geometry will be much like the current 
guess-if-this-app-meant-to-set-fullscreen-state-based-on-configure-request 
code in many WMs. Why inflict that on ourselves?

Havoc