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wireframe resize and move is the easy answer for reducing application resize events and display server spamming. This is a core problem I've always had with enlightenment window manager, it forces opaque resize/move no matter what which murders remote display usage.

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Of course when Enlightenment first came out, the opaque treatment of windows was a fairly new thing (I think BeOS was where that originated). At the time wireframe window movement was the standard -- on X, on the Mac, and on Microsoft Windows.

Windows NT had full blitting of windows while moving them instead of xored wireframe - it was the single easiest way of distinguishing between it and Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. That was in 93/94 - I don't know how it compared with Be of that era, but Wikipedia says the first developer release wasn't until late 95.

i added wireframe resize to Rio 15 years ago. people didn't like it :)

http://mirtchovski.com/lanlp9/rio/index.html

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