Proposing to extend the EWMH spec

[Bastien Nocera]

On Sun, 2015-10-04 at 13:45 +0200, Sebastian Geiger (Lanoxx) wrote:
> Hello Freedesktop,
> 
> This is my first mail to the list, so I am not sure if this is the 
> correct approach to ask about this. And I am not sure how the
> procedure 
> for proposing changes or additions to an existing specification
> works. 
> Please feel free to suggest alternative approaches if this is the
> wrong 
> place to discuss my problem.
> 
> I have the following problem: I would like to programmatically change
> the size of a window and be able to increase its size such that is
> fills 
> the whole work area on the current monitor.

Why does the application need to grow in size by itself? What does this
gain compared to the window manager's maximise function?