AW: AW: xemacs trouble maximizing window
If so, the WMs are broken.
One application [XEmacs] misbehaves when its window is being maximised. Not a single other
application I've ever seen in a decade of Linux usage or so does in *this* way. So
your conclusion is the WMs are broken? I beg to differ.
Even if they were, even if kwin and metacity *were* broken (not to speak of several others
I've used during those years) - are we talking about usability here or about standards
compliance? Do you want to give your users a satisfying experience or do you want to
enforce standards?
Don't get me wrong. I love standards. My job is to define, introduce and enforce
standards. Standards butter my bread. But as a user I want my software to support me doing
my job. I don't want to have to remember not to maximise a window.
I know that modern text widgets (by Procrustes[tm]) don't care
about
that, but I do like it that way, and I don't see why XEmacs should
change this behavior unless the users *want* their lines wrapped or
truncated differently just because they changed font sizes.
Well, I'm not really into the technical details. I'm mostly a user when it comes
to XEmacs. I don't really care if XEmacs line-wraps the stuff (which seems natural to
me, though, when changing the font size) or still gives me the number of columns I might
have unconciously told it.
I *do* care about the fact that maximising XEmacs has been broken now for quite some time
for me, though, because it's *really* annoying. If I can help you track this problem
down just let me know.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Wulf C. Krüger