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Re: moving window handling into lisp
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martin rudalics |
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Re: moving window handling into lisp |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:22:06 +0200 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) |
> The distributed fuzzy-machine cannot be simplified because it defends
> itself by, well, being distributed.
The weak point of that machine is the size_window routine which IIUC is
called by most of these distributed components.
>> > Me thinks there are much more thoughts spend on 'window-min-height'
>> > now than there possibly were at the time when it was first introduced.
>>
>> Not really. Any window-manager has to deal with the possibility that a
>> window gets to small when its parent-window shrinks. All we can do is
>> make such cases occur rarely, in practice.
>
> Window-managers don't deal with shrinking parent windows. They deal
> with fixed desktop/root windows.
I obviously meant "any Emacs window-manager" here. I don't even know
whether desktop window-managers use concepts like parent-windows or the
split-window paradigm.
> With individual applications it's called "layout-manager", which exist
> in the various GUI toolkits.
>
> layout-managers are invisible containers that allow you to place
> components like widgets or windows of other layout-managers within,
> and to set a policy how these components are arranged, such as "box",
> "grid", "flow", ...
>
> The concept of min-size exists too, though individually for each
> component, and it actually means what it says, that is "keep this
> thing at least that large". Consequently a case of "too small" can
> never happen.
So if a component doesn't fit it's iconified in some sense of that word?
martin
- Re: moving window handling into lisp, (continued)
- Re: moving window handling into lisp, grischka, 2009/08/17
- Re: moving window handling into lisp, martin rudalics, 2009/08/18
- Re: moving window handling into lisp, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/18
- Re: moving window handling into lisp, grischka, 2009/08/19
- Re: moving window handling into lisp, martin rudalics, 2009/08/19
- Re: moving window handling into lisp, grischka, 2009/08/20
- Re: moving window handling into lisp, martin rudalics, 2009/08/20
- Re: moving window handling into lisp, David Kastrup, 2009/08/20
- Re: moving window handling into lisp, martin rudalics, 2009/08/20
- Re: moving window handling into lisp, grischka, 2009/08/20
- Re: moving window handling into lisp,
martin rudalics <=
- Re: moving window handling into lisp, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/21
- Re: moving window handling into lisp, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/08/22
- Re: moving window handling into lisp, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/22
- Re: moving window handling into lisp, grischka, 2009/08/24
- Re: moving window handling into lisp, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/19
Re: moving window handling into lisp, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/20