Re: Review: FULLSCREEN_MONITORS Hint

[Nathaniel Smith <njs pobox com>]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 06:55:25PM -0800, Grant Patterson wrote:
> Dana Jansens wrote:
> >There are no other data.l[] elements, only 5.  That said, the data.s[]
> > elements should be more than enough and allow for more things to be
> > added in the future, but I realize every other hint exclusively uses
> > data.l[].  Anyone else have an opinion about this?
> >
> I like the idea of using the 16-bit elements so there's room for expansion. 
> While I can't see any reason for this now, there might be some flags an app 
> would want to set to further define window manager behavior. Changed.

Oh, please don't, there are enough bizarre and surprising
inconsistencies in the X world as it is.  (And this would require a
whole new special case in at least my code.)

If you want future expandability, without using a new atom, then do it
properly -- mark some fields as "if this field is non-zero, then
discard the event" and some as "if this field is non-zero, then
pretend the field is zero anyway", all that complex cruft.
Alternatively, just accept that the way we do future expansion is by
adding a new, extended atom, a la _NET_WM_STRUT{,_PARTIAL}...

-- Nathaniel

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