AW: AW: xemacs trouble maximizing window

[Krueger, Wulf]

> If so, the WMs are broken.  

One application [XEmacs] misbehaves when its window is being maximised. Not a single other application I've ever seen in a decade of Linux usage or so does in *this* way. So your conclusion is the WMs are broken? I beg to differ. 

Even if they were, even if kwin and metacity *were* broken (not to speak of several others I've used during those years) - are we talking about usability here or about standards compliance? Do you want to give your users a satisfying experience or do you want to enforce standards?

Don't get me wrong. I love standards. My job is to define, introduce and enforce standards. Standards butter my bread. But as a user I want my software to support me doing my job. I don't want to have to remember not to maximise a window.

> I know that modern text widgets (by Procrustes[tm]) don't care about
> that, but I do like it that way, and I don't see why XEmacs should
> change this behavior unless the users *want* their lines wrapped or
> truncated differently just because they changed font sizes.

Well, I'm not really into the technical details. I'm mostly a user when it comes to XEmacs. I don't really care if XEmacs line-wraps the stuff (which seems natural to me, though, when changing the font size) or still gives me the number of columns I might have unconciously told it. 

I *do* care about the fact that maximising XEmacs has been broken now for quite some time for me, though, because it's *really* annoying. If I can help you track this problem down just let me know. 

Mit freundlichen Grüßen, 

Wulf C. Krüger