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

[Thomas Cataldo <thomas cataldo laposte net>]

On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 01:08, 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.

What i had in mind was a window manager that always follows my placement
directives on top level windows (without specifying SPLASHSCREEN window
type). If don't use the setPosition method of the toolkit, the wm
placement code should do its job, i.e. TopLevelWindow::setPosition(x,y)
should call
TopLevelWindow::setWindowManagerClass(WMWindowsType::SPLASHSCREEN)

>  
> > 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