[PATCH weston v3 06/13] shell: account for the subsurfaces when going fullscreen or maximizing

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:24:54 -0700
Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> 
> > We had some talk about adding a "window region" or something in the
> > past, that would be used for edge snapping and stuff, or was it
> > deemed that input region was enough; I can't recall.
> 
> That was my proposal, though I think that is not relevant to this 
> discussion.
> 
> I'm not clear on what this merging of the bounding boxes is being
> used for.

It is used for everything where you need to know the window size, as
opposed to the sizes of the individual surfaces that compose a window.

- pq