Why X protocol/server forbid zero width/height?

[Olivier Galibert]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 12:12:16AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:
> X could be modded to eliminate any hard-coded problems, but still be made to
> exhibit the same old behaviour to legacy apps.

Frankly, do you think any application relies on getting BadValue?
Moves from "this is invalid" to "this is now valid" tend to be
considered perfectly backwards compatible.

I'd understand using the presence of an extension to say that it is
the new and improved version, but having code to revert to the
previous behaviour when it's not tickled right is probably an
unnecessary maintainance burden.

  OG.