From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: moving window handling into lisp Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:19:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4A87F8B8.6050102@gmx.at> <4A882312.6020106@gmx.at> <4A8D12B3.6070502@gmx.at> <4A8D46C9.1010108@gmx.at> <4A8D66D5.3000600@gmx.at> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250813963 7246 80.91.229.12 (21 Aug 2009 00:19:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:19:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 21 02:19:16 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 1MeHqd-0005qe-KN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:19:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43222 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MeHqc-00006i-Uk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:19:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MeHqZ-00006d-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:19:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MeHqT-00006Q-M4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:19:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55241 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MeHqT-00006N-H9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:19:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:40334) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MeHqT-0006xV-9Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:19:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MeHqT-00033U-1j; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:19:05 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lennart Borgman on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:41:25 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:114469 Archived-At: One of the benefits of moving window resizing into Lisp is that people will be able to easiy try out various different ways of doing it. So we need not try to decide the best way by a discussion about abstractions now. It will be possible to have different resizing strategies for different situations, too. Responding to a window manager need not be the same as responding to the user's dragging a boundary.