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: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:11:28 +0200 Message-ID: <4A86DE30.8060902@gmx.at> References: <4A8283D8.6070208@gmx.at> <4A83E2ED.2090805@gmx.at> <4A868A1F.4020101@gmx.at> <4A86AD92.7030308@gmx.at> <87vdkpfbeg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250352710 31346 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2009 16:11:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:11:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 15 18:11:43 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 1McLr5-0002qy-2f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:11:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54222 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1McLr4-0001Ig-Au for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:11:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1McLqz-0001Fr-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:11:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1McLqu-00018a-P0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:11:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47296 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1McLqu-00018X-LH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:11:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:57824) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1McLqu-0006sL-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:11:32 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Aug 2009 16:11:30 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-61-34.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.61.34]) [62.47.61.34] by mail.gmx.net (mp039) with SMTP; 15 Aug 2009 18:11:30 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/17cl8Ofn14QQynIYHQxS/3jRV4jMRD/1L7h5YUA 6Dmcrci86KJCzt User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.72 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:114273 Archived-At: > This could be a special case. Just change the pointer to the (root) > window and save the old pointer. Well, and what would we do then? Could you sketch a dialogue? >> I find it saner to refuse the resize request (perfectly valid behavior) >> until the frame-internal window configuration allows it. > > I have no idea if it is valid. It is on w32, but what about other > window managers? We already do have a lot of complaints from people using some less standard WMs. Most of them run like "Emacs is the only application that does (or does not) behave that way." > There are also similar (but without windows identity problems) when > restoring a saved window configuration. Indeed. And asking questions while a saved desktop gets restored could be annoying as well. BTW, what kind of questions would you ask here? martin