On Tuesday 06 February 2001 05:10 am, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 February 2001 03:20, rik@kde.org wrote:
> > #if mosfet
> >
> > > Okay, here's my problem:
> > >
> > > Pixie (the image management system I'm working on), supports scaling
> > > images too large to fit on the screen. The problem is when I first do
> > > the scaling the image first scales to the wrong size. If I reload it
> > > it's correct tho! I have no idea why this is, but I have a hunch KWin
> > > may be resizing windows too large to fit on the desktop itself, then I
> > > go and resize it again... If this is the case is there any way to
> > > disable this behavior in KWin?
> >
> > You are correct. Try loading images larger than the screen with XV.
> > Sometimes they aren't redrawn correctly, sometimes they are sized
> > incorrectly.
> >
> > Rik
>
> If a window is too large to fit on the desktop, kwin maximizes it.
>
> Useful default. It only breaks for strange image viewer that cannot show
> scrollbars (like xv).
>

And Pixie - which I don't think is strange ;-) What's strange about scaling 
images too large for the desktop? Can it be disabled?

> Matthias