Masatake YAMATO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know well that we are in feature-freeze stage. > However, I think the feature provided by following patch is too > good to be dropped from the next release.
Disagree. > As subject says, you can control(show or hide) window decorations > attached to frames by a window manager on X11 window system. > (Currently my patch only support emacs built with gtk+.) > > As you can see, the patch is very short. Actually I have not taken > much time for this patch. However, I think the impact of this patch > is not small. > > With this patch, you can use a frame as a tooltip window. > Advantages over the conventional tooltip window are: > (1) you can handle input to a tooltip window with elisp code, A tooltip is exactly there for the purpose of _not_ interfering with input. And it is actually close to impossible to move the mouse cursor _onto_ a tooltip. > (2) you can use text with faces and pixmap images, and You can do that already. > (3) you can contorol the text with faces and pixmap images with > elisp code. You can do that already. > (4) scrollbar Since it is not possible to move the mouse cursor onto a tooltip window, there does not seem much purpose in doing so. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
