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

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Package: emacs;

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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #191 received at 7296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 7296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>,
	Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#7296: display-pixel-height not enough
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:24:14 +0100

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> 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.

Yes, you are right it is not enough. On w32 you get the values for the
workarea as a rectangle with the functions I pointed to. Maybe we
should have a function that return a list with the work area values
(top left right bottom) instead?
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