From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: zappo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: frame sans decoration
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 22:27:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <858y21ivgy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050527.040204.182736682.jet@gyve.org> (Masatake YAMATO's message of "Fri, 27 May 2005 04:02:04 +0900 (JST)")
Masatake YAMATO <jet@gyve.org> writes:
> I know well that we are in feature-freeze stage.
> However, I think the feature provided by following patch is too
> good to be dropped from the next release.
Disagree.
> As subject says, you can control(show or hide) window decorations
> attached to frames by a window manager on X11 window system.
> (Currently my patch only support emacs built with gtk+.)
>
> As you can see, the patch is very short. Actually I have not taken
> much time for this patch. However, I think the impact of this patch
> is not small.
>
> With this patch, you can use a frame as a tooltip window.
> Advantages over the conventional tooltip window are:
> (1) you can handle input to a tooltip window with elisp code,
A tooltip is exactly there for the purpose of _not_ interfering with
input. And it is actually close to impossible to move the mouse
cursor _onto_ a tooltip.
> (2) you can use text with faces and pixmap images, and
You can do that already.
> (3) you can contorol the text with faces and pixmap images with
> elisp code.
You can do that already.
> (4) scrollbar
Since it is not possible to move the mouse cursor onto a tooltip
window, there does not seem much purpose in doing so.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-26 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-26 19:02 frame sans decoration Masatake YAMATO
2005-05-26 20:27 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-05-26 21:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-05-26 22:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
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