On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 23:50, Michael Thomas Vanderford wrote: > Would it make more sense for applications to start > in the upper right corner of the desktop? > Icons by default are on the left side. > It seems there is always a need to move the app to the right. I would like to make a couple of comments to think about with this. If you have a multi-head desktop, having things start in the upper right hand side of the desktop is really painful. I have a 4 monitor Xinerama desktop and while granted this probably isn't as common of a setup as others, I don't believe blindly putting apps in the top right hand corner is the best plan at all. Having applications start centered would be by far better IMO ( if the application hasn't been started once before and the dimensions and/or placement isn't remembered). Additionally a pet peeve of mine is applications that make assumptions about their starting size based on desktop size. A good ( bad ) example of this is Gnumeric, whom on startup used like 80% of my desktop width. Now this would really be a problem on a single head system, however when it is a big wide desktop it becomes a lot more painful. I have pointed this out to Gnumeric developers in the past, and they like this behavior. I don't think its a good behavior to have for many applications though. Just food for thought. Sincerely, Will
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