[RP] Re: is this against the philosophy?

[Mark Eichin]

Use cases!  Great descriptions of the details of the feature, but I'm
missing why you'd actually want to *do* any of that stuff...

Since ratpoison gets transients right (popups look like popups, mostly
I care about this for firefox alert() and error dialogs), the only use
I have for non-full-size windows is that some things (usually gnome
configuration panels) are bigger than the screen, and I can't get to
the OK/Cancel buttons at the bottom [for some reason I fail at tabbing
to them] -- and I'd probably win if I could just move the window so
the lower right corner was in the lower right corner of the screen (so
the origin was offscreen).  Not sure if your size functions would help
with that...

On 2/3/06, Aaron Griffin <address@hidden> wrote:
> So here's what I'd like to do... if this is against the core
> philosophy, feel free to call shenanigans on me.
>
> new setting "set automaximize off" - automaximize is the default
> behavior, with maximized windows.
>
> With this off, windows' size hints are honored and a window is started
> centered.  This functionality would include some command additions:
> a) sizewin- This command accepts an integer step value for the
> adjustment to all sides.  i.e. ":sizewin -1" will shrink a window by
> one pixel or one increment (if it uses them).  I might also have it
> flip into a 'resize' style mode without a step value.  Potentially,
> this could also be used as a resize in the case of a split frame,
> which is maxed on all but one side.
> b) maximizewin - Simply maximizes the window in it's frame, honoring
> the max size hints if they are present.
> c) minimizewin - Minimizes the window based on the minimum size hints.
>  This will probably mostly break things... so it may be removed...
>
> So, what do you all think?  I don't doubt I could patch this stuff in
> a few days (assuming my other arbitrary projects don't get in the
> way), but I just want to know what you all think.  I work better when
> I have some support (even if it's one guy), so I'm putting this out
> there right now.
>
> Feel free to give me any and all input.
>
> - Aaron
>


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