[sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:13 AM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at cscott.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
> <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I
>>> suppose we could add a new hint for some activities indicating which
>>> of their multiple windows (if any) should be the 'background' one
>>> mapped full-screen, but I believe the existing hints are adequate.
>>
>> That's what the PRIMARY/APPLICATION was meant to be in my proposal...
>> I'm not sure the existing hints are adeguate, but if there are window
>> managers which manage to deal with the gimp correctly, then I guess
>> there are at least ways to make reasonable guesses.
>
> Well, if there's only one window, and it's "stretchable", then your
> decision is easy.
> If it requests a fixed size, then you should probably decorate and
> float all the windows.  I could also see floating all fixed size
> windows and tiling all "stretchable" windows -- that would make the
> 'gimp' work nicely; all the palettes would be floating and all the
> drawings would be tiled.  And that's using only the "stretchable"
> hint. =)
>

GIMP is stretchable. It looks ugly when it is stretched too much, but
you can stretch it or even maximize it if you want.

Thanks,
Sayamindu

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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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