Re: [E-devel] Developers think they know better than end users

[Ben F. <be...@ka...>]

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:

>On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 13:27:21 -0800 Ben Ford <be...@ka...> babbled:
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>>And I really can't stand it, especially unresizable windows.  What is 
>>the possibility of E getting the option to ignore some of these hints?  
>>Perhaps this could be part of the 16.6 patch that Kim is working on.
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>it's probably a REALLY BAD IDEA (tm) to ignore this hint. why? because the app
>probably doesn't HANDLE being resized - it wont redraw or recalculate its
>contents.. and it probably doesnt even listen to the configurenotify (resize)
>events.. thus it will basically lead to the window looking like crap. apps
>generally set their minimum and maximum window sizes for a good reason - the wm
>doesnt know the reason, but it obeys the hint.
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I was under the impression that GTK, as an example, isn't laid out by 
pixel precisely so that it could be resized.  It may not end up 
*looking* pretty, but when I need to resize a dialog to do anything 
useful with it, I don't care what it looks like, just that it is large 
enough to be useable.

-b

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