GNOME Shell 2.91.90 released

Posted Feb 24, 2011 0:33 UTC (Thu) by Frej (guest, #4165)
In reply to: GNOME Shell 2.91.90 released by nix
Parent article: GNOME Shell 2.91.90 released

It's not quite the same as you describe fvwm does it. The application in many cases know how wide a window should be to display all data. Say your code editor when you wrap stuff at 80 chars, or your browser viewing fixed with layout (or max-width, the autosize would change the width to this.

I guess the hard part is that this requires communication between WM/app instead of the WM just setting the new size of the window.

GNOME Shell 2.91.90 released

Posted Feb 24, 2011 8:19 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I'm fairly sure editors don't know how wide they should be. Certainly my Emacs never could: I can split the screen at any time. (And my web browser can do the same, though I'll admit that ability is rarer.)

I suppose this should really be an ability owned by a Sufficiently Smart Window Manager... but it isn't, it's part of the apps.