Why X protocol/server forbid zero width/height?

Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov D.Yu.Bolkhovityanov at inp.nsk.su
Wed Nov 23 20:50:59 PST 2005


On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Jim Gettys wrote:

> There is a good paper:
>
> http://www.std.org/~msm/common/protocol.pdf
>
> Why X Is Not Our Ideal Window System
> Hania Gajewska
> Mark S. Manasse
> DEC Systems Research Center

 	A very cognitive paper, thanks a lot for the reference!

 	Section 2.3 states the same thoughts as mine are -- exclusion of 0 
was just a misdesign, with no important reasons behind it.

 	So I can relax -- my understanding of X is okay :-)

 	Are there plans to remove this "w>0 && h>0" constraint?

 	_________________________________________
 	  Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov
 	  The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
 	  Novosibirsk, Russia



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