Seems that for NOW the easiest thing to do, to make the problem bearable, is to position the windows by default down Y and left X of their parent window. And set the default position of the root windows to the top/right of the screen. That will get the windows out of the way, and be totally usable for the time being, until we can add such features as a right aligned desktop. Already there are mechanisms to determine the default position of a window. It doesn't seem like just setting those values to something else is much of a problem at all. On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 09:10, Calum Benson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 11:12, Glynn Foster wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > At the moment, unvisited windows are just placed by metacity like normal > > > windows. However, i think your idea actually has some merits in the > > > general case too. If you open a new small window, any window, chances > > > are that you don't want it to cover the typical icons on the left hand > > > (and possibly right hand) side of the desktop. > > > > And in fact this was one of the main issues coming out of one of the Sun > > usability studies, which didn't seem to get published :( Calum? > > Yeah, we didn't publish it at the time because JDS was still an > unreleased product, but there was supposed to be some effort to get it > out afterwards. I'll ping the relevant folks and see what happened to > that. > > As it happens I've been thinking about this problem over the past couple > of days too, but I don't have any magic solution so far... simplest idea > I had was just to try and make sure windows appear centred on the > current screen the first time you open them (since unless they're really > big, that should still keep them clear of any icons down either side of > the screen), and always remember their previous position after that. > Possibly supplemented by easier ways to access desktop icons if they do > accidentally get obscured, e.g. a Desktop submenu on the GNOME Main menu > that stayed in sync with the contents of the desktop. > > Cheeri, > Calum. > > -- > CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland > mailto:calum benson sun com Java Desktop System Group > http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 > > Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
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