[Glade-devel] [glade-3] minor GUI issues

[lists alcopop org (Jon Dowland)]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 07:51:09PM +0200, Paolo Borelli wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 18:10 +0100, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> > Here's a few minor GUI issues that I noticed:
> >
> >  o Do we want to set the initial positions on windows like in glade-2?
> >    Currently they appear anywhere, not really in useful positions.
> >    (Ideally we'd save window positions between sessions, but I don't
> >    think there is a standard way of doing that yet. Maybe later.)
>
> IMHO the positions should not be hardcoded and if they do not appear in
> useful positions I'd consider that a bug in the WM... in practice
> however it may make sense.
> To save the window positions all the other apps I know of use gconf, but
> we currently do not depend on it.

If you decide to take a more active role in window positioning, please 
consider the behaviour of pane-based window managers (ratpoison,
ion, fvwm-partition, larswm trswm, wmi, evilwm); where the concept of a
position may not be honoured.

I would hazard a suggestion that in today's open-source world, a broken
window manager should be fixed, rather than compensated by
applications...

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Jonathan Dowland
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