<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 3:30 PM Olivier Fourdan <<a href="mailto:ofourdan@redhat.com">ofourdan@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Hi Mike,<br>
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> Yes, I know you are not currently advocating for it, but you've proved my<br>
> point--others will see this go in and then they will push for it. Adding<br>
> any form of size hints is a slipper slope which leads to more size hints<br>
> imo.<br>
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My turn to play the Devil's advocate then :-)<br>
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And even if we end with more hints eventually, what is wrong with that?<br>
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I reckon if we had hints in X11, it's also because people have had a need for such a mechanism...<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Olivier<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure, and as I said, I have no issues with that if a separate (optional) protocol is created for it. I just don't think that the best place for it is in xdg-shell, which is supposed to be just a small core set of features that are absolutely required in order to create a usable desktop environment.</div></div></div>