Re: moving window handling into lisp

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:38 AM, martin rudalics<address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> - Even if you have the code to compute the desired shape of the tree, it's
>>   far from trivial to figure out how to go from the current tree shape to
>>   the goal tree shape without bumping into things like window-min-height
>>   and window-min-width on intermediate states.
>
> And fixed-size windows.  It's a pain.  Some combinations of desired
> window configuration / frame sizes do not even have a solution at all
> (just like putting footnotes on pages): You can't put a cretain window
> into a frame because it won't fit due to some restrictions; so you
> decide to delete it.  But if you delete it, the remaining windows won't
> fit, so you put it back.


In the situation when you try to put back a window tree config into a
window/frame and there is no solution I guess the best would be to not
put anything back.