text: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: >> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:13:49 +0200 >> From: Jan Djärv <address@hidden> >> CC: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>, address@hidden >> >> > What use-case could possibly want to know the dimensions that include >> > unusable portion? >> > >> >> They are not unusable. One can create a frame that covers the >> taskbar/panel/whatever. > > On MS-Windows? If so, what is this bug report about? It says: > > If you want to know how much height there is available to display a > frame then display-pixel-height does not give you the information you > need. The taskbar (w32 name, I have no idea what it is called on other > platform) and other "bars" may have reserved some of the vertical > space. > > "Reserved" means, to me, that those parts cannot be used. What am I > missing? Perhaps nothing. On w32 maximized windows covers the area that are not reserved by the taskbar (or other bars). I think this is the area that we should return (as I have said before). Maybe a bit of confusion comes in because the taskbar only reserves this area on w32 if it is not automatically hidden.