Subject: Re: bug#10920: 24.0.93; Poor response to display size changes

From: Jan Djärv <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 15:12:23 +0100

Hello.

1 mar 2012 kl. 15:56 skrev Dave Abrahams <[email-masked]>:

> 
> It seems to me:
> 
> * When the display size changes, any visible frames that aren't completely
>  visible should be moved/resised so they are

This is not as easy as it seems. If you have Emacs spanning several monitors and one of them changes it is not obvious what to do. One could special case it for the single monitor case I guess.

> 
> * "maximized" should be remembered as part of the frame state, and when
>  the display size changes, any previously-maximized frames should be
>  re-maximized.

As this is the work of the window manager in X11, the NS-port had no code to go by. How is this handeled in W32 which doesn't have a window manager either?

> 
> * The same goes for "fullscreen" (which IIUC is only supported via a
>  patch that lives outside emacs, but I mention it here for
>  completeness).
> 

The 10.7 style fullscreen does not have this problem, which is an argument for just supporting that type of fullscreen in 24.2. 

     Jan D.