From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yuri D'Elia Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: improving multi-monitor support in x11/carbon Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:00:49 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202137274 24201 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2008 15:01:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:01:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 04 16:01:36 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 1JM2pB-0008Q4-JV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:01:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JM2oj-0000VA-Ke for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:01:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JM2og-0000Uy-0i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:01:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JM2oe-0000Ud-Gl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:01:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JM2oe-0000Ua-ET for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:01:00 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JM2oe-0004A2-Bt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:01:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JM2oZ-0005jS-Vy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:00:55 +0000 Original-Received: from 88-149-141-235.dynamic.ngi.it ([88.149.141.235]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:00:55 +0000 Original-Received: from wavexx by 88-149-141-235.dynamic.ngi.it with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:00:55 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88-149-141-235.dynamic.ngi.it User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (PPC Mac OS X) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:88163 Archived-At: In article , Richard Stallman wrote: > I fully agree with Yamamoto Mitsuharu here: a clear designed api is > needed: > > - there may be more than a single monitor > - placement and size may not be linear or constant > - the origin can be anywhere, not simply at +0+0 > - viewable area may not be the the whole screen: > - on mac there is a menu bar on the main monitor only > - on windows there's the start panel, which may or may not occupy space > > It sounds like a good idea. Would you like to implement it? I don't think I will have enough time in the next months to implement it in a proper way. I would prefer for someone else to step in. I may give a shot for fixing the actual behavior on carbon however, if the proposal I suggested would be accepted.