On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 21:28 -0700, Mark Tiefenbruck wrote:
> > And if a window can't handle being resized.. that's kind of funny. Are
> > your users switching/restarting their WM multiple times a second?
>
> Consider this example. You're watching a movie with a fullscreen
> MPlayer. Your system receives a critical update to your window
> manager, and it needs to restart. Which should happen: a) MPlayer
> stays fullscreen and your window manager generally lets you focus on
> the movie, or b) MPlayer resizes, you see a bunch of windows getting
> reparented, and then MPlayer returns to fullscreen?
>
This is a poor example. Surely you can do better than this.... Window
managers should be able to run indefinitely, just as the X server.
- Jim
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Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child
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