nanogui: GTK Ideas
Subject:
RE: GTK Ideas
From:
Greg Haerr ####@####.####
Date:
17 Jun 1999 17:01:39 -0000
Message-Id: <01BEB8AF.4BC82CB0.greg@censoft.com>
: > Has anybody thought about how a window manager would handle small
: > screens? What does everyone think about full screen windows only, such
: > as in Windows CE?
:
: Yes, it has been discussed before. There are probably going to be at least
: two window managers, one with all the bells and whistles for machines with
: at least 640x480 and a few megs of memory, and a tiny one for palmtops and
: very low memory systems. Multiple desktops and all windows except dialog
: boxes being full screen is likely to be at least an option for the smaller
: WM.
:
I have solved this problem with the micro-windows window manager
model, in my version 0.8. There is no need for multiple window managers, since
the base windowing system allows the window data structure to be of any size
and any position. A "full screen" window is just a window with the caption
positioned NW off the screen. Anyway, to give you an example, the micro-windows
kernel gdi and window manager all take up a grand total of 42k on 16-bit machines.
