Re: GNUstep manage its own window as menu ?

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2003-10-23 14:30:54 +0000 Yen-Ju Chen <yjchenx@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just a idea.
> Since GNUstep manage the menu by itself (menu is borderless window for 
> XWindow),
> why does it not manage the normal window by itself.
> I mean drawing the title bar and border, shading, etc.
> Therefore, window manager only need to know the movement and size of GNUstep 
> window.
> That putd the responsibility of window drawing back to GNUstep as menu.
> By this way, every GNUstep window is borderless Xwindow window.
> Any reason not to do so ? Too much trouble for GNUstep to implement ?

Personnally, I'm all for it ;-)
the only problem perhaps is that the application needs to tell the window 
manager
that it will iconize, maximize .. hmm... but xmms does it... so, I didn't 
looked at the
available X11 hints, but something is perhaps already existing :-)

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