GNU bug report logs - #32672
27.0.50; image resize on window resizing

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 32672 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#32672: 27.0.50; image resize on window resizing
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 14:25:15 +0200

>> I don't know what to do.  We run hooks too often and do not provide
>> sufficient information when running them.  Sometimes we even hide
>> information when running a hook.  The problem is that changing the
>> current situation will have us either run even more hooks or cause
>> protests when a hook is no more run where it was run before.
>
> I agree.  I think Lisp programs that use hooks provided by
> display-related code should generally expect to be called in many
> unrelated situations, and do whatever it takes by themselves to detect
> when it's "their" use case.  Expectations or requests for more focused
> hooks are impractical or even not feasible to implement, because core
> code knows very little about the Lisp application which uses the hook.

'window-configuration-change-hook' is a great mess and is not
display-related.  What users really need IMO is a single hook say
'window-state-change-functions' that we'd call in redisplay_internal
in lieu of 'window-size-change-functions'.  We would run it if
something in the state of a frame's root window changed (including
size changes, changes of the windows' start positions and the selected
window) and additionally provide a list of the differences in the
frame's previous window state and the one redisplay is about to use.
But such a change would be incompatible and the hook would
consequently have to be run in parallel with our present hooks.

martin

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