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

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 7296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#7296: display-pixel-height not enough
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:13:49 +0200


Eli Zaretskii skrev 2010-10-29 09.59:
>> From: Lennart Borgman<lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:39:35 +0200
>> Cc: 7296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>>> Wouldn't it make more sense for display-pixel-height/width to return
>>> the height available for display?
>>
>> Probably. But there are perhaps also situation when you actually want
>> to get the dimension of the whole display. Perhaps not at the moment,
>> but with enhanced frame handling there could be.
>
> What use-case could possibly want to know the dimensions that include
> unusable portion?
>

They are not unusable.  One can create a frame that covers the 
taskbar/panel/whatever.

	Jan D.
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