KWindowSystem::windowGeometries() ?

[Lubos Lunak]

On Wednesday 07 of October 2009, Marco Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
> in Plasma we have a little class used to abstract the construction of
> xatoms used basucally only by us to trigger/control particular kwin
> effects. now, another convenience function we need is to fetch the
> geometries of a certain group of windows (that can be any list of ids) (see
> http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1800/)
>
> Now this type of function probably could make sense in KWindowSystem since
> is more about generic window management rather than composite effects.

 KWindowInfo::geometry(), KWindowInfo::frameGeometry().

 Hmm, but that is what the reviewboard function calls. And I don't see good 
use cases for a library function that is just a loop over this. It appears to 
be rather unusual to me to want just geometries of a random group of windows.

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