Re: [Fwd: Frame Height Different for Default Frame and Additional Frames]

[Jan Djärv]

Drew Adams skrev:
> > > Did we already settle on a "right" way to do this?  Robert expressed the
> > > desire to keep the number of text lines invariant.  ISTR others wanted
> > > the size of the frame on the screen stay invariant.  At least a similar
> > > issue was recently brought up for menubars.  Finally, I'm interested how
> > > changes of menu-bar-lines/tool-bar-lines are supposed to be applied and
> > > handled - I'm quite lost in this context.
> > I don't think we did.  But frame size can't in general stay constant as
> > we have wm hints.  For example, I have 13 pixels of text height.
> > That gives min resize 13.  The tool bar is 36 pixels.  So when the
> > tool bar goes, either we increase text size by 3 (== 39, 3
> > additional pixels) or by 2 (26, decrease by 10 pixels).
> >
> > I'll implement whatever seems easiest, and then people can suggest
> > alternatives after that.
>
> The fact that it is not always possible to maintain exactly the same overall
> frame size because that size is not always an integral number of characters
> is not a reason to not try to maintain the size as closely as possible.
> Please don't simply "implement whatever seems easiest".

This is a Gtk+ issue that taken up a lot of my time lately.  Unless you are 
willing to contribute code, the easiest thing is what I will do.  This is code 
that is hard to get right, so making a complex solution is out of the question.

        Jan D.