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[–] simonced@lemmy.one 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I used to do apps with QT (as well as with Java) and when creating a window, I only needed to say, "new window of that preferred size please", then the engine would make the window of that size if possible. Now, maybe QT did things more in depth behind the scene, I don't know.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

I kind of think that's QTs whole deal right? An abstraction layer that allows for devs to not get stuck in the weeds implementing it all manually.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If Qt or Java is doing it, then that's still your program and not the WM, though?

[–] simonced@lemmy.one 1 points 2 months ago

In those cases, I agree. But for a tiling window manager like w3m, I don't see the application having a say in position and location. Hence I didn't think that the app has so much to do with creating windows. Just my thought.