Re: [Nautilus-list] remembering different properties in different directories?

[Ryan Muldoon <rpmuldoon students wisc edu>]

On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 18:08, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Thomas Cataldo <thomas cataldo laposte net> writes:
> > Well, think of the splashscreen case. It's pretty disturbing to see the
> > splash of an application appear in the corner of your screen.
> 
> Yes. That's why we need a SPLASHSCREEN semantic type.
>  
I must say that I like the idea of defining semantic types, rather than
just letting apps do whatever.  If it can be worked out such that the
use cases that Maciej presented (media players, panels, etc) can be
handled cleanly, then it strikes me that that would be the way to go.

Just as long as it doesn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. ;-)

	--Ryan

> > Sometimes the application has more information than the window manager
> > on the "good" position. I'm saying that with ms office in mind,
> > automatically moving its popup so that the text you're typing is never
> > hidden by an help popup, or a floating toolbar.
> 
> Metacity lets both of those semantic types be moved/resized by the
> app. 
> 
> Note that Metacity is a prototype sort of thing; if you were going to
> deploy it today, you'd have to make some concessions to broken apps,
> but because it is my window manager that does whatever I like, I don't
> have to do that. ;-)
> 
> Havoc