Proposing to extend the EWMH spec

[Sebastian Geiger (Lanoxx)]

On 05/10/15 12:49, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 12:40 +0200, Sebastian Geiger (Lanoxx) wrote:
>> Anyway I think it does not really matter why I need this.
> I don't think people here will want to extend specs "just because".
What I mean was that this should not be seen a feature just for my 
specific use case, but a way to make the specification more consistent 
in multi-monitor setups. As a result other applications might profit 
from this as well. I am not sure how many applications use 
gdk_screen_get_monitor_workarea, but each application that does might 
exhibit wrong behaviour if its run on a multi-monitor setup with panels 
on secondary monitors. Especially since different window managers behave 
different when the window size is set bigger then the available workarea 
size.

Some WMs just ignore the setting and limit it to its maximized size, 
others expand the window but it overflows _under_ the panel. Again 
others ignore the size if it exceeds the available work area, except if 
the size is equal to the monitor size at which point the window is 
handled as a fullscreen window, which can have undesired side effects.