On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:25:39 -0800 Ben Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 13:27:21 -0800 Ben Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> >
> >
> >
> >>And I really can't stand it, especially unresizable windows. What is
> >>the possibility of E getting the option to ignore some of these hints?
> >>Perhaps this could be part of the 16.6 patch that Kim is working on.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >it's probably a REALLY BAD IDEA (tm) to ignore this hint. why? because the
> >app probably doesn't HANDLE being resized - it wont redraw or recalculate its
> >contents.. and it probably doesnt even listen to the configurenotify (resize)
> >events.. thus it will basically lead to the window looking like crap. apps
> >generally set their minimum and maximum window sizes for a good reason - the
> >wm doesnt know the reason, but it obeys the hint.
> >
> >
> >
>
> I was under the impression that GTK, as an example, isn't laid out by
> pixel precisely so that it could be resized. It may not end up
gtk calculates minimum and maximum pixel sizes from the layout. ie if i packed
thngs into a vbox and said to every member "dont expand" then i packged the vbox
into the window - gtk would have a logical way of dealing with the widgets
beyond a "guess" as the app programmer has defined things to not be able to
expand in size. they then can also optionally set a foxed size of the window and
not allow grown and shrink- to be honest the rel problem lies in the programmer
of the app not allowing the window to be resized. thats the real issue at hand
here. maybe they have a good reason for it? who knows.
> *looking* pretty, but when I need to resize a dialog to do anything
> useful with it, I don't care what it looks like, just that it is large
> enough to be useable.
>
> -b
>
> --
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>
>
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