Re: Emacs's set-frame-size can not work well with gnome-shell?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 11:02:25 +0200
> 
>  >> Apparently, child frames are in wider use only since last year.
>  >
>  > OK, but that is only a convincing argument if the current emacs-27
>  > behavior of child frames is horribly broken.  Is it? if so, can you
>  > describe some examples of the breakage?
> 
> Resizing a child frame on mutter is impossible.  I think that's horrible
> enough for the packages that want to do that.

What is "mutter"?

>  > The changes in mouse.el are the most troublesome from my POV, as long
>  > as we are talking about the release branch.  They affect
>  > mouse-resize-frame and mouse-drag-frame, two very important functions
>  > used for all kinds of frames.  How can we be reasonably sure nothing
>  > was broken in those two functions by these changes for frames that are
>  > not child frames?  AFAICT, the above description doesn't attempt to
>  > address this concern, which for me is the main one.  Can you help me
>  > become less worried about that?
> 
> Yes.  I can apply these changes to master only because the only person
> who ever noticed that something is wrong there was me.

Pushing only the non-Lisp changes to the release branch is fine by me,
thanks.