From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: moving window handling into lisp Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:26:54 +0200 Message-ID: <4A87DEEE.1050009@gmx.at> References: <4A6DAF71.6070002@gmx.at> <4A6DBB3A.90001@gmx.at> <4A6DC1A1.2000208@gmx.at> <4A6DDB61.8090403@gmx.at> <4A6EAB02.6080701@gmx.at> <4A7010D7.3050305@gmx.at> <4A81374E.9050401@gmx.at> <4A8283D8.6070208@gmx.at> <4A83E2ED.2090805@gmx.at> <4A868A1F.4020101@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250419003 28518 80.91.229.12 (16 Aug 2009 10:36:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:36:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 16 12:36:35 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mcd6A-00011D-J5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:36:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54827 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mcd69-0000fb-0O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mccx6-0002h5-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:27:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mccx1-0002g4-4A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:27:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53153 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mccx0-0002fp-RF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:46703) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mccx0-0007Aq-8Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Aug 2009 10:26:56 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-43-46.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.43.46]) [62.47.43.46] by mail.gmx.net (mp050) with SMTP; 16 Aug 2009 12:26:56 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/9S3Z2jwf9+2yR0M7FoLj2D8mrXr7pYj8ATiDmWK 6TORFBOQ/v1BeW User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.71 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:114297 Archived-At: > Not necessarily: it could be done by instructing the window-manager > beforehand about the applicable resizing limits. We'd have to consult Jan whether this can be done on a general base. > I've often found > windows that cannot be resized below some threshold (often dialog > windows). Try it with `evolution', for example: I can't make it > narrower than 879 pixels. But dialogue windows are handled specially by most WMs. Personally, I hate dialogue windows because they all too often cut off some text and I can't get them show it. >> I think we can live with deleting windows in that case and _not_ >> resurrecting them when the frame is resized. > > With window-managers that do "opaque resizing" (pretty much standard > nowadays), that can be very problematic. Because a window gets deleted when I shrink the frame and does not reappear when I re-enlarge the frame? martin