[Commits] [SCM] claws branch, master, updated. 3.13.2-160-gcb67730

Andrej Kacian andrej at kacian.sk
Sun Jul 3 01:08:47 CEST 2016


On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 18:50:58 +0200
Paweł Pękala <c0rn at o2.pl> wrote:

> >IMHO, window placement is a job for the window manager, and if you're
> >using a good one, you won't have any "unwieldy interacting". I also
> >didn't observe any issue with this on Windows.  
> 
> Window managers don't have any metadata about window, for them it's
> just coordinates and size, only application know real context. And what
> if you switch between different DE's? 

The only metadata about windows a WM needs is which windows belong
together (window class/role strings, transiency), so that it can place
them correctly together. Claws Mail already sets this 

> I'm unfortunate to use WinXp and things are bad there, yes I know it's
> old and shouldn't be used anymore, not my call.

Unfortunately, I do not have a WinXP box available for testing. It is
possible that some fixes are needed for that OS, and if it's something
simple, I am all for adding the fixes, but they need to be applied only
when running on WinXP.

Regards,
-- 
Andrej


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