[platform-swt-dev] Decorations vs. Shell

[Knut Radloff <knut_radloff@xxxxxxxxxx>]

What is the difference between Decorations
and Shell widgets? The Decorations doc says that it provides the behavior
of Shells and suggests that it just can't be a top level shell. If I create
a Decorations widget parented off a top level shell it behaves different,
on Windows, than a Shell parented off a Shell. The Decorations "shell"
can not be moved outside the parent shell. The child Shell on the other
hand behaves just like a top level shell with regard to sizing and positioning.
Is the Decorations size/location behavior
one of the intended differences between a Shell or is this just platform
behavior and it may vary? It seems the latter is true since it is not documented.

I saw earlier comments how the Decorations
class was supposed to be abstract and originally not intended to be instantiated.
What was the rationale to create a top-level "shell" kind of
class instead of implementing all API directly in the Shell class?

Knut