bug#7296: display-pixel-height not enough

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:10 AM, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
<mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:46:58 +0100, Lennart Borgman 
>>>>>> <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> said:
>
>>> Perhaps W32 can do similar things for window position/size
>>> adjustments so the window height is automatically shortened when
>>> the specified height exceeds the "available" height.
>
>> It is possible to do this on w32. (But it is a bit more complicated
>> than what I suggested here.)
>
> As Drew and Jan pointed out, appropriate calculation at the Lisp level
> is not that simple and requires platform-specific adjustment even if
> we have a primitive for available pixel width/height.

Yes, but it is not possible at all without the display working area size.

Could we, as a first step, do as Eli suggested, i.e. let
display-pixel-height/width return the working area size instead of the
total display size? Is there any reason not to do this now?