Re: Infrastructural complexity.

[Thomas Lord]

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 12:13 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> There's really no way for Emacs to request a particular placement: maybe
> when the frame is created,

Is that really true for the use case at hand?

For example, on X11, window system windows can have parents
and applications can control their placement within the
parent.  That's how things like pop-up menus often work.

A "tear-off" is a menu or very similar pop-up that
the user can "reparent" and make persistent on the
screen.  When the user does that, it's generally
speaking by means of a mouse gesture that explicitly
says where the reparented window goes.

I don't see the problem with allowing those pop-ups
to be frames (framelets) that can then be torn off.

-t