Re: [bugs #11713] Windows resizable when they shouldn't be

[Alex Perez]

Fred Kiefer wrote:

> Update of bugs #11713 (project gnustep):
>
>                 Summary: 
> Windows resizable when they shouldn't be => Windows resizable when they
> shouldn't be
>
>    _______________________________________________________
>
> Follow-up Comment #1:
>
> You should provide more information on the expected behaviour first.
> Currently GNUstep will pass on the values you provide in your application for
> the NSWindow minSize and maxSize to the window manager. Is this working for
> you?
>  
Seriously, are you kidding? More information? GNUstep windows which are 
not supposed to be resizable (like panels, for instance, but it's not 
limited to just that) are in fact resizable in many many many other 
windowmanagers besides WindowMaker. How is the "expected behavior" not 
clear? No, it's not working for me, which is why I filed the bug. I made 
it pretty explicitly clear in the bug I submitted what I thought was 
going on.  Frankly, this e-mail seems to make me think you either didn't 
read the actual report I submitted or didn't understand something very 
basic about it, perhaps because I described the problem poorly. If 
there's something specific you need me to clarify, please be specific, 
but do not ask me to re-explain the entire problem. I use WindowMaker 
for my day to day use but I would like to see this problem fixed, 
because when I recommend GNUstep to people who are GNUstep newbies, they 
are usually running GNOME or KDE.

> There is also a style flag for an NSWindow (NSResizableWindowMask) to define
> if resize controls should be shown. Are you expecting this flag, if not
> present, to trigger the window to be not resizable? If so, will the minSize
> and maxSize of the window change as well, or should the backend handle this
> behaviour internally?
>
> As for XSetWMSizeHints, I am not quite sure, why we should use this instead
> of XSetWMNormalHints. I found one usage of this on the web where it gets used
> for XA_WM_ZOOM_HINTS. Is this what we need?
>  
Nobody proposed that you use it INSTEAD. It should probably be used in 
addition to. This suggestion was given by one of the folks who seemed to 
know what they were talking about in #freedesktop on FreeNode.