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25.1.50; Frame resizing due to tool bar + Gnus

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 23966 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23966: 25.1.50; Frame resizing due to tool bar + Gnus
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:33:41 +0200

>> ‘frame-height’ is not necessarily a reliable reflection of what you see
>> on screen.
>
> Why not?

Because of rounding.  Tool bar, menu bar and scroll bars do not have
necessarily sizes that are multiples of a frame's default character
size.  And often you're losing pixels when the frame gets maximized or
‘frame-resize-pixelwise’ is non-nil during resizing.

> What's more reliable?

Everything that counts in pixels like ‘frame-pixel-height’.

>> ... in an emacs -Q of the release version I get
>
> I assume you mean from emacs-25?

Yes.

> With 24.5 I get "Symbol's function
> definition is void: frame-geometry".

Indeed.

>> What do you get with my modifications?
>
> On emacs-25 with -Q and frame-resize-pixelwise nil:
[...]
> Other buffer; frame pixel height: 608  toolbar height: 53
[...]
>
> On master with -Q and frame-resize-pixelwise nil the results were the
> same except for the third to last line:
>
> Other buffer; frame pixel height: 608  toolbar height: 45

Not here.  I get 648 and 44 in both cases.

> On emacs-25 with -Q frame-resize-pixelwise t:
>
> Emacs started; frame pixel height: 576  toolbar height: 53
[...]
> Final; frame pixel height: 666  toolbar height: 53

So your frame has grown by 90 pixels.  Remarkable.  BTW setting
‘frame-inhibit-implied-resize’ to t would avoid that.

> On master with -Q and frame-resize-pixelwise t the results were the
> same except for the last three lines:
>
> Other buffer; frame pixel height: 621  toolbar height: 45
> Back to Summary buffer; frame pixel height: 658  toolbar height: 8
> Final; frame pixel height: 658  toolbar height: 53

Here all lines are the same, again.

The problem is not GTK specific.  Lucid and Motif behave similarly.  I
suppose that just enabling ‘tool-bar-mode’ is not sufficient to make a
gnus tool bar once gnus has started.  Maybe this deficiency is inherent
to ‘tool-bar-mode’ itself.  But it would be interesting to find out
who's responsible for making such small (8 pixels in your, 35 pixels in
my case) tool bars in the first place.

martin

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