[Glade-devel] Window mess with glade-3

[otaylor redhat com (Owen Taylor)]

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On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 12:36, Micha=C5=82 Byrecki wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:54:12 +0200
> Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
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> > The GTK+ team discourages the use of GTK_WIN_POS_CENTER. The GTK+
> > team *strongly* discourages the use of GTK_WIN_POS_CENTER_ALWAYS.
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> Hello Owen.
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> Then what should i use? GTK_WIN_POS_MOUSE? I took a snapshoot of the
> left upper corner of my crt, so that you could check out how does that
> look by the default position: http://www.elektronika.org/windowpos.jpg

Basically, if a window is being positioned offscreen with the default
settings, then you should:

 A) If this is happening with the combination of GTK+ and metacity
    then make sure a bug is filed in GNOME bugzilla, and  use thhe
    least-problematical alternative. (GTK_WIN_POS_CENTER, here), with
    a comment with a reference to that bug number.
   =20
    (This may be related to
     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D92094)

 B) If this is happening with any other window manager, file a bug
    with your window manager author, and leave the code with the=20
    default settings.=20

> And, where and why exactly GTK+ team discourages using
> GTK_WIN_POS_CENTER? If it was up to me, i'd better have this dialog
> window in the center than in its 2/3 off the screen.

Dialogs should be positioned related to their parent windows and
positioned onscreen. If this isn't happening with the default
settings, then that needs to be fixed in GTK+ and/or metacity, not
worked around in every app.

GTK_WIN_POS_CENTER is a bad idea because it will typically result
in the relationship between the dialog and the window being=20
obscured.

GTK_WIN_POS_CENTER_ALWAYS is a really bad idea because repositioning
windows after they have been mapped typically means fighting the
user.

Regards,
                                                Owen


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