[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] libvo: set PBaseSize in SizeHints

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 07:39:36PM +0100, Bert Wesarg wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 19:37, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 19:27, Reimar Döffinger
> > <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> >> "plain wrong"? As I read it you don't like that your window manager
> >> tells you the window size relative to the minimum and would prefer
> >> absolute values, and like this you make MPlayer force your window
> >> manager to do that. But that does not make the previous behaviour wrong.
> >> In addition, the obvious question is if what you suggest makes most
> >> sense, because what I would consider the "base size" is the unscaled
> >> (but aspect-adjusted) size of the video, why not set that instead of 0?
> > You mean, say for a 640x480 video, a base size of 640x480? I think
> > because the relation of min size and base size that would mean you
> > can't make the window smaler, but I'm not sure.
> Actually, if your WM let you resize your window to a smaller size that
> the base size, you would get negative sizes, I don't think you want
> this either.

Why? (besides at least one WM being seriously broken)