Re: GNUstep manage its own window as menu ?

[Chad Hardin]

On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 07:28 AM, Adam Fedor wrote:

> On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 08:30 AM, Yen-Ju Chen 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 ?
>
> What it the app hangs? Then you're stuck and you can't move any of the 
> windows around. We did menus that way because they have special 
> requirements (attached and torn off). Although I'd prefer that the WM 
> handled the menu title bars as well.


OS X, BTW, suffers from the same problem.  OS X has some pretty good 
ways to terminate such apps though.

Speaking of which, GNUstep could probably use such features.

Maybe nothing more than a simple app to terminate other apps, such a 
thing would be platform specific though, of course.

Chad


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