RE: [Fwd: Frame Height Different for Default Frame and AdditionalFrames]

[Drew Adams]

> >     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.
> 
> > Ideally, the tool bar ought to work like the menu bar:
> > turning it on or off should not affect the height of the text area.
> 
> Well, in my world, the The Right Thing is to not change the size of the
> frame unless explicitly requested, so adding a toolbar or menubar should
> reduce the amount of text displayed.
> 
> But clearly in other worlds, the convention is different (e.g. macosx
> users probably expect the toolbar to change the size of the whole frame).

That's what I said too:

   It is likely that there are different preferences for this
   based on different uses of frames.

We should have a user option for this:

   The right approach to this is to provide a user option for it.
   There is no sense arguing over which frame-size treatment is best
   in this regard