From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, bob@rattlesnake.com
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Frame Height Different for Default Frame and Additional Frames]
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:00:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47800C1E.9020400@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACCEFNCGAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
Drew Adams skrev:
>>> Did we already settle on a "right" way to do this? Robert expressed the
>>> desire to keep the number of text lines invariant. ISTR others wanted
>>> the size of the frame on the screen stay invariant. At least a similar
>>> issue was recently brought up for menubars. Finally, I'm interested how
>>> changes of menu-bar-lines/tool-bar-lines are supposed to be applied and
>>> handled - I'm quite lost in this context.
>> I don't think we did. But frame size can't in general stay constant as
>> we have wm hints. For example, I have 13 pixels of text height.
>> That gives min resize 13. The tool bar is 36 pixels. So when the
>> tool bar goes, either we increase text size by 3 (== 39, 3
>> additional pixels) or by 2 (26, decrease by 10 pixels).
>>
>> I'll implement whatever seems easiest, and then people can suggest
>> alternatives after that.
>
> The fact that it is not always possible to maintain exactly the same overall
> frame size because that size is not always an integral number of characters
> is not a reason to not try to maintain the size as closely as possible.
> Please don't simply "implement whatever seems easiest".
This is a Gtk+ issue that taken up a lot of my time lately. Unless you are
willing to contribute code, the easiest thing is what I will do. This is code
that is hard to get right, so making a complex solution is out of the question.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-05 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-01 16:56 Frame Height Different for Default Frame and Additional Frames Rocco Pigneri
2007-10-02 7:52 ` martin rudalics
[not found] ` <E1Iewxc-0004U8-CC@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-10-08 21:12 ` [Fwd: Frame Height Different for Default Frame and Additional Frames] martin rudalics
2007-10-09 20:02 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-09 21:25 ` martin rudalics
2007-10-10 5:55 ` Jan Djärv
2007-10-10 6:51 ` martin rudalics
2007-10-10 7:39 ` Jan Djärv
2007-10-10 7:50 ` Jason Rumney
2007-10-10 20:41 ` martin rudalics
2007-10-11 6:15 ` Jan Djärv
2007-10-11 8:52 ` martin rudalics
2007-10-11 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-14 16:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-11 5:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-11 8:52 ` martin rudalics
2007-10-11 18:03 ` Jan Djärv
2007-12-25 17:17 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-27 19:10 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-28 13:56 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-28 20:06 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-28 23:09 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-12-28 23:51 ` martin rudalics
2008-01-05 11:22 ` Jan Djärv
2008-01-05 13:08 ` martin rudalics
2008-01-05 17:33 ` Jan Djärv
2008-01-05 18:08 ` Drew Adams
2008-01-05 22:42 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-01-05 23:00 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2008-01-06 8:08 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-06 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-06 20:45 ` [Fwd: Frame Height Different for Default Frame and AdditionalFrames] Drew Adams
2007-10-10 21:03 ` [Fwd: Frame Height Different for Default Frame and Additional Frames] Richard Stallman
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