Re: [MiNT] XaAES 1.18 desktop

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Am 18.06.2011, 13:46 Uhr, schrieb Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>:

> Thanks Helmut. I like the menu idea, any idea why some icons are  
> affected ?

The desktop uses stored y-values to place them on the screen. XaAES  
switches off the menu temporarily when launching a desktop to tell the  
desktop its root-window-size. Otherwise there would be redraw-errors. So  
y=0 for the desktop is screen.y=0 (new) or below the menubar (old).

In the first version the root-window was resized when switching the menu,  
causing all icons to jump up or down. Looks funny, but not very practical.  
Also this caused memory-violations because internal data of the desktop  
had to be accessed, and redraw-problems with thing.

Actually I don't consider  this issue to be finished yet.

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Helmut Karlowski