Re: Review: FULLSCREEN_MONITORS Hint

Lubos Lunak <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.wm-spec
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > On Nov 26, 2007, at 8:27 a, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > > On Thursday 22 of November 2007, Grant Patterson wrote:
> > >> A read-only list of monitor indeces indicating which monitors the  
> > >> window
> > >> should stretch over when fullscreened. The window must cover the  
> > >> union of
> > >
> > >  "The window should" - this is a request to the WM and there's no  
> > > guarantee it
> > > will honour it.
> >
> > But here we're talking about the read-only property, which must be in  
> > sync with the window's actual geometry--not the client request.
>
>  I see. I didn't (and still don't) see any point in having another property
> announcing something that's obvious to those few that might possibly care.
> I don't find this property to carry any useful information.

 Ah, but the property is needed if the state should be set right when the 
window is initially mapped :-/. Ok, I guess modelling it after _NET_WM_STATE 
is the least of the evils then.

>  However, I overlooked the source indication field in the message, which
> makes sense, to distinguish between pagers and apps. Therefore I now
> support the message.

-- 
Lubos Lunak
KDE developer
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