On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:48:06AM +0100, Robert Staudinger wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms@1407.org> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I don't see any *advantage* in dropping it, or you guys simply mean
> > relaying --geometry to GTK+?
>
> The advantage of dropping it would be that it removes the Xlib.h dependency.
>
> It's possible to pass down the geometry down to where GtkWindow/s are
> created and use gtk_window_parse_geometry, but that would complicate
> the code.
>
> So I'd like to drop this unless people are really depending on it. As
> said in my initial email, geometry is usually meant to be determined
> by the window manage anyway.
>
> - Rob
Wouldn't it be possible to make this conditionally - if one compiles with
Xlib (i.e. if the GTK is compiled with Xlib) it would only have --geometry...?
(I personally consider it a bad thing to remove such options even if very
little people are using it...)
P.T.
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