GNU bug report logs - #7296
display-pixel-height not enough

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Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:08:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 7296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 'Lennart Borgman' <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>, 'YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu' <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
Subject: bug#7296: display-pixel-height not enough
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:24:37 -0400

>> In what way can the working display area size in pixels be
>> incompatible? And why is using the current total display area size
>> better (and more compatible)?
> It's not that one or the other is better; it's that they
> are different.

Indeed, and it goes even further: if someone cares about the workarea
enough to want to know its height and width, she may also want to know
its *position* on the screen.  So I'm not sure convinced that
adding display-pixel-work-height and display-pixel-work-width would be
sufficient either.


        Stefan
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