Re: how to determine maximum possible window size?

[Chris MacGregor <chris-gtk-list bouncingdog com>]

On 02/05/2008 05:21 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 16:36 -0800, Chris MacGregor wrote:
> > Thanks, but those functions don't account for the space occupied by 
> > things like panels. Any suggestions for how to deal with that? (That was 
> > the question I was trying to ask.)
>
> that wouldn't be a part of GTK, but would part of GNOME. GTK is useful
> on systems without panels, with panels, with permanent (almost) top
> level menus, etc etc etc. you can even use GTK on a system without any
> window manager ...

Does GTK not have any way of knowing how big a window will be when maximized? 
 Should I be asking this question on a GNOME list?  Is there simply no 
portable way of doing this?

Perhaps this is information that GTK *SHOULD* make available to apps - part of 
the point is to hide the system-dependent hassles from the app, right?

Putting it into GTK+ 2.22 or whatever doesn't solve my problem now, but maybe 
it's the right thing to do.