Re: Generic positioning

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 18:38 +0100, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 13:52 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 11:33 +0000, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> > > I would think that if people see generic x, y, width & height properties
> > > then they will expect them to refer to the top-left coordinate and the
> > > exact width & height of the item.
> > 
> > I don't personally feel that's necessary, but I guess we can achieve
> > that. Armin, could you try that, please?
> 
> Yes, but as explained in the bug this would break compatibility for
> items that already have "x" and "y" and behave differently (such as
> GooCanvasText or GooCanvasWidget when the "anchor" property is not
> GTK_ANCHOR_NW).

What does the anchor default to? Maybe we can just change the default to
get the expected behaviour in most cases. And maybe Damien would accept
that change in some future parallel-install version?


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