[haiku] Re: Full-screen and multi-monitor handling, related: I haven't used Haiku, but from what i have seen, this is my atempt to make Haiku R2 compitable to other OSs when released

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:29:15 +0100 CET

"François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In the case of a single-monitor 800x480 desktop, with the Deskbar
> > in the top right of the screen, one rectangle will be returned 
> > which
> > is the size and position of the Deskbar (top=0, left=688,
> > width=112, height=156).
> Zeta 1.5 actually did this in BWindow::Zoom(), which clipped the 
> Deskbar area out of the desktop rectangle before calling the virtual 
> Zoom() method with those values...
> I didn't like it because it left lot of space on the right when the 
> Deskbar was in the corner as I like it.

One could restrict the Zoom() feature only in case the Deskbar is at 
the bottom or top of the screen, though - for the regular full screen 
users :-)
I rarely use full screen apps; most of them don't know what to do with 
that space, anyway, and I usually don't just work with a single app.

Bye,
   Axel.

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