Re: just-the-text Emacs frame

[Jan Djärv]

Ted Zlatanov skrev 2011-06-03 17.11:
> On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:16:22 +0200 Julien Danjou<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> JD>  I clearly had the same (kind of) idea as you have about creating an
> JD>  Emacs based DE. To me what was missing was the possibility to make a
> JD>  panel, this is why I've started my strut-dock branch. :)
>
> emacs-panel.el will be a package in the GNU ELPA (I hope), so if you can
> commit there you can work on it too.  I'd like to avoid depending on any
> particular features like your WM strut+dock support, the GTK
> decorated+deletable properties I asked for, etc.  That way it can be
> used in older Emacs versions and in XEmacs.  So if you can merge your
> strut+dock work into the Emacs trunk that's great, but it's not critical.

I'm not so positive to the strut+windw type modifications for three reasons:

1) It can all be done in Lisp in a current Emacs without code modifications 
(well you have to unmap and remap for window type to take effect, so that is a 
bit ugly).
2) Strut is intended for pagers, panel and such, Emacs is not that kind of 
application.
3) Window types interract with override redirect and just setting the window 
type might not do the expected thing for all window managers.

Window type might have uses, but then override redirect should be handeled 
correctly also.  I don't think strut is suitable in Emacs.

        Jan D.