From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal for a new API to fullscreen Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:59:51 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87wsidphul.fsf@kanis.fr> <200808191131.07032.tassilo@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219140035 9468 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2008 10:00:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:00:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 19 12:01:28 2008 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 1KVO1l-0005nt-JI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:01:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33837 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVO0o-00088M-Me for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVO0L-0007zD-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:59:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVO0J-0007yX-VS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:59:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56664 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVO0J-0007yS-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:59:55 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:48401 helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KVO0I-0002gp-AP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:59:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (relay-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A228E41392; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:59:51 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: Is this ANYWHERE, USA? In-Reply-To: <200808191131.07032.tassilo@member.fsf.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:31:06 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:102635 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > On Tuesday 19 August 2008 09:46:42 Ivan Kanis wrote: > > Hi! > >> By fullscreen I mean no taskbar, emacs take all the screen estate. > > Isn't fullscreen display of some application window something the windo= w > manager should deal with, not the application itself? For example in > KDE or stumpwm you can make any window fullscreen (via a window menu or > a keybinding), and I'm sure it's the same for GNOME and most/all other > windowmanagers. That's not fullscreen, but maximize. The difference is that the latter still shows things like the taskbar and window decoration. The fullscreen mode has to be requested by the application. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."