Re: [gtk-list] Re: Humble request...

[Havoc Pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Matthew Berg wrote:
> 
> My real problem is that both the default and most custom widgets don't
> correct this behavior.
> 

I'm thinking of adding the ability to configure this to Gnome
applications, since there's lots of disagreement and every app does it the
way the app author likes. It should be a one-hour or less job, not
counting cleanup of cases where people override the Gnome defaults in
their particular applications.

I'll allow choice on two dimensions:

GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL, GTK_WINDOW_DIALOG

and 

GTK_WIN_POS_MOUSE, GTK_WIN_POS_CENTER, GTK_WIN_POS_NONE

In English, for the position, it's 
"Put dialogs at mouse pointer"
"Put dialogs in center of screen"
"Let window manager position dialogs"

Is there any window-manager independent way to describe the
toplevel/dialog choice in English?

I guess this won't help for Gtk-only apps, but you have to have standards
and policy to have non-app-specific configurability. Remember: less
programmer choice means more user choice. ;-)

Havoc Pennington ==== http://pobox.com/~hp