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Re: Infrastructural complexity.


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Infrastructural complexity.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:19:43 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux)

>> I think there's a misunderstanding here: the non-starter idea is
>> "separate top-level WM windows".  Having several "frames" within the same
>> top-level WM-window is perfectly OK.  After all, it's just another way
>> to look at window-groups.

> In my understanding a window group is the abstraction of an object we're
> using every day - an internal window.

That's one view, indeed.

> A frame embedded within a frame is something whose internal
> representation we would have to specify and code first.

Think about it: take a frame, split it into 5 windows, then mark those
5 as "frame(let)s" aka "window-groups".


        Stefan




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