Re: Generic positioning

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 18:47 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 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?

It does even default to GTK_ANCHOR_NW. So it seems to be only a minor
issue anyway. Problems arise only when people rely on the generic
x/y/width/height behaviour but change the anchor of such items.

Armin