bug#7296: display-pixel-height not enough

[Jan Djärv]

2010-11-01 11:20, Lennart Borgman skrev:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:46 AM, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
> <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>  wrote:

> > I mean compatibility with previous versions.
>
> But is not the current version of display-pixel-height/width kind of
> bogus since it does not give the actual useable working area?

What documentation says that display-pixel-height/width is that?


> > Anyway, no matter how you try to specify position/size in detail at
> > the Lisp level, additional constraints are forced by the window
> > manager on X11 and the Cocoa framework on Mac OS X.  And such
> > additional constraints actually solve the problem in your motivating
> > example in the first place.  It looks more natural to implement such
> > constraints in the remaining environment, i.e., W32.
>
> I see. Yes, maybe. I will have a look at it. (But I would still
> suggest changing display-pixel-height/width.)

No, that way lies madness.  If you really feel you must fiddle with pixels 
yourself introduce new variables/functions.

        Jan D.