shr-contacts/messages/dialer: window size and further issues

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:21:10 +0100 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org> said:

> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 04:13:16PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch 16 September 2009 13:37:28 schrieb Nikita V. Youshchenko:
> > > > > > > WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
> > > > > > >         program specified minimum size: 198 by 350
> > > > > > >         program specified maximum size: 198 by 350
> > > > > > > ...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > the way the contents are specified for the window, it isnt
> > > > > > resizable. the app
> > > > > > is in control of this.
> > > > >
> > > > > All SHR apps have these values defined as above.
> > > >
> > > > That means that all SHR apps will get non-resizable 198x350 windows
> > > > under any stardards-compliant window manager.
> > > >
> > > > This is definitly a bug that should be fixed.
> > >
> > > and what is the proposed fix? Use XSetWMSizeHints?
> > 
> > I've never written a line using E libraries, but quick search suggests 
> > evas_object_size_hint_min_set() / evas_object_size_hint_max_set() 
> 
> Like those are of much use when you can turn from portrait to landscape.
> 
> NOT a solution!

it's not an issue if your wm is like e+illume or matchbox and maximises apps
regardless of min/max size.if its a desktop wm rotate is irrelevant here as the
wm wont go resizing the window on rotate anyway, even if it is rotatable. (or
is very unlikely to do this - move the window maybe, resize - unlikely).

you need to differentiate between a wm setting up a sane windowing policy for
such screen sizes and uses and a "desktop" wm and is policies.

i agree the apps should not be relying on the wms ignoring their hints to work
right - they should have their content packed in such a way that they are
resizable. that is the correct solution. then a nice friendly resize of the
window object to a nice size is good too (remember to get the min/max hints
first and respect them in your resize as he resize is not going to respect them)

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