On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 07:58:06PM +0300, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> On 15 Aug 2003 15:16:41 +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 02:25:43PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:17:29PM +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:48:20AM -0500, FVWM CVS wrote:
> > > > > <snip>
> > > > > * Removed the decor for EWMH fullscreen windows,
> > > 
> > > > > forbid shading
> > > 
> > > Why?
> > 
> > If you shade a window without decoration, then you have a 1 pixel
> > line. This is problematic, but why not. Now in the case of a
> > fullscreen window the 1 pixel line is on the top of the monitor and
> > often the offscreen top part of the monitor is black, also there is
> > (maybe) the panframe. So it is extremely difficult to unshade the
> > window.  This may happen with some non fullscreen window, but here I
> > get a criterion (fullscreen). However, if you think that we should
> > allow shading this is really not a problem for me. 
> 
> Maybe if a fullscreen window is requested to be shaded, it is first
> un-fullscreened?
> 
> I myself don't see a problem to disallow shading. A normal maximized
> window is still allowed to be shaded; and anyone may un-fullscreen and
> then shade a window if this is what he needs; or un-fullscreen, maximize
> and shade. There is probably no much sense in fullscreen + shade states.

Why can't the user decide whether it makes sense or not?

> The whole fullscreen state is to help users (hopefully it is a user who
> requests fullscreen, not a malicious program) to keep a window visible.

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^
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