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Subject: Re: the UI viewport logic.. someone please help my understanding?

Re: the UI viewport logic.. someone please help my understanding?

From: Thomas Martitz <thomas.martitz_at_student.htw-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:01:32 +0100

Jonathan Gordon schrieb:
>
> no it doesnt... screens would still call _get_defaults or _fullscreen,
> but the code behind them will be simpler. (And im now annoyed I'm at
> work and cant look at the code to prove my point... but anyway I didnt
> want to talk code in this discussion)
>
>

It's *very* simple behind the scenes at the moment, IMO.

>> That consistency in the code isn't existent. Neither viewport_set_defaults()
>> nor _fullscreen() check in which screen one currently is. There's no
>> thinking or checking. There's no such check at all in any of the related
>> areas. It just depends on what of the both functions you call, which existed
>> before sbs.
>> The former gets you the current UI viewport (no matter whether there's an
>> sbs or not), the latter gets you the the maximized viewport minus statusbar
>> area (no matter whether there's an sbs or not).
>>
>>
>
> ok, time to take a step back... how can _fullscreen() not be returning
> the real full screen?! that really makes no sense... now, if it was
> named get_fullscreen_minus_sbs_area() or simply _get_defaults() I
> could understand... but fullscreen implies it gets the whole
> display...
>
>


No idea, you wrote the function to act like that. You even defended the
way it excludes the statusbar area back when I proposed a "ignore
statusbars"/"really, fullscreen" parameter. Anyway, renaming is a simple
thing.
Received on 2009-10-28

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