Anselm R Garbe dixit (2009-10-13, 18:05): > 2009/10/5 Szabolcs Nagy <nszabo...@gmail.com>: > > there are some clients with large minimum size (eg gnome programs: > > gedit, evince (with side plane),..) which might cause problems: > > * tiling algorithm does not handle the case when the clients on the > > stack are larger than configured (it handles the case when they are > > smaller though, like xterm) > > * large clients on the stack might span across another monitor > > covering it partly (and mod+left click makes the client jump to the > > other monitor if its center is on the other monitor) > > > > i'm not sure if/how these cases should be handled gracefully > > I agree these things are a problem, but more a problem through the > brokeness in the list of assumptions of the underlying apps. We > require that clients are not broken and must accept any size in order > to support tiling layout algorithms. For tile() in particular I always > preferred to keep it simple instead of trying to support these > corner-cases. Though it might be worth thinking if there is any > sensible solution -- a quick thought concludes we could pull clients > into floating when the resize() operation detects a size that isn't > acceptable (which will also reject the attempt to resize). What do you > think?
Makes sense (and is by intuition – at least mine – the expected behaviour). -- [a]
