On 5 December 2016 at 13:41, Markus Teich <[email protected]> wrote: > Anselm R Garbe wrote: >> Why adding instance/class exceptions for resizehints? Do you have an example >> where this should be taken into account? > Markus Teich wrote: >> - resizehints per client (+1 SLoC): Some old version of mplayer "forced" me >> to >> write this. I don't know if this is still a problem, but the patch might be >> usefull regardless. > > Basically mplayer needed the setting to be inverse to the setting for all > other > clients to behave how I wanted. I think I wanted mplayer to fill the whole > tile > it was assigned to (producing black bars top+bottom or left+right), but could > only achieve that by enabling resizehints for mplayer. However that would also > introduce unwanted behavior for other programs, so I wrote this patch. > Nowadays > I use mpv instead of mplayer and could not reproduce this issue with mpv. I > didn't and don't have time to investigate if that was/is a bug in mplayer, so > if > you think it could be useful in other cases, apply it, if you think it was > just > a bug in mplayer, leave it out.
I prefer to leave it out for now, as changing rules would add a bit of burden when upgrading existing config.h's. -Anselm
