Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!gould.doc!dme From: dme@doc.ic.ac.uk (Dave Edmondson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: virtual roots Message-ID: Date: 18 Dec 90 09:55:22 GMT References: <9012160738.AA20211@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Imperial College Mafia Lines: 24 In-reply-to: mouse@LIGHTNING.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU's message of 16 Dec 90 07:38:08 GMT In article <9012160738.AA20211@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> mouse@LIGHTNING.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU writes: mouse> [%] As far as I can see. What other benefits can the collective mouse> imagination of the net come up with? it's faster when you have lots of windows and you want to pan. with a virtual root window, you move the virtual root window, without a virtual root you must move (at least) all of the visible/to-be-visible windows, and nieve implementations (like vtwm) move _all_ of the windows _all_ of the time. not moving all of the windows does have repercussions - what happens when a window that is off screen, but not in the correct place relative to the real screen pops up a dialog box. it presumably will pop it close to where it currently is, but that is not really where it should be. it's a can of worms. i personally am in favour of virtual roots, after having written code to do the `lets just fake it all up' approach. dave. -- Dave Edmondson, Systems Support. Opinions are all my own. Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 1BZ. phone: 071-589-5111 x5085 fax: 071-581-8024 email: dme@doc.ic.ac.uk, ..!ukc!icdoc!dme, dme@athena.mit.edu ``Be selective, be objective, be an asset to the collective'' -- Jazzy B