Re: Placement of popup ( CellRendererDate from examples )

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 9/7/05, Jan Hudec <bulb ucw cz> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:01:53 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote:
> > Elijah Newren wrote:
> > > On 9/5/05, Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au> wrote:
> > > > Elijah Newren wrote:
> > > > I don't think this is a WM bug. The WM ( in this case,
> > > > Enlightenment-0.17 ) is doing exactly what the code says - aligning the
> > > > top-right of the popup with the bottom-right of the cell. The problem is
> > > > in the logic of the positioning of the popup. I'm almost done on a
> > > > solution.
> > >
> > > Ooops, I missed the part where you were manually positioning it.
> > > Yeah, that's a tough call on whether the WM should follow that or
> > > force the window onscreen, so it's not clear which is right.
> > I disagree that it's a tough call. If an app requests to be drawn at a
> > particular position, then the only valid action on the part of the WM is
> > to do just that. Consider an app that starts off-screen and scrolls
> > onscreen. Maybe this is a tacky example, but it's perfectly valid. No,
> > actually, here's a not-so-tacky example - an OS-X like starter bar :)
>
> Isn't popoup an OverrideRedirect window?
>
> If it is, than window manager just can't do anything about it, because it
> simply does not know about it.

Yes, if it is, you're right.  For some reason I just assumed it was a
dialog window; don't know why.  Any other blunders I made besides
missing the manual positioning bit and the likely case that the window
is override-redirect?  :-/