Re: frame parameter menu-bar-lines changes height of frame

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:40:36 -0700
> 
> See also emacs-devel thread "bug in frame-width", 2004-08-12.
> 
> The decision in that thread seems to have been to correct this bug after the
> impending release - but that was two years ago! Can we perhaps fix this now,
> or soon after the release?

This issue has come up several times in the recent years.  Fixing it
is non-trivial.

> This is a regression wrt the correct behavior in Emacs 20.

Emacs 20 had a different (simpler) display engine, which didn't need
to cope with variable-size fonts, and supported fewer toolkits (which
influence the menu bar display).