Re: [Usability] optimised window placement and wide screens

[John Keller <jkeller matchbox fr>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 10:46 +0100, John Keller wrote:
>
>> Shouldn't the window manager take into consideration the 
relationship of parent-child windows? Perhaps centering dialogs on the 
appropriate window, or similar to the sheets in Mac OS X (aside from the 
fact that Gnome dialogs aren't modal).
>
>
>
> Metacity should be centering dialogs in all cases where the app
> correctly indicates to the WM the parent-child relationship.
> A random example, open gnome-terminal, choose Edit->Profiles, that
> dialog should be centered on the terminal window.
>
> Sometimes apps don't mark the dialog as a child, and then metacity is
> kind of screwed - there isn't a way to guess really.
>
> So really what you want to do is raise the issue for each specific app
> window and dialog pair, so we can get those apps fixed.


Thanks for the explanation, Havoc. I'm glad that it was just my noticing 
it in some frequently used (for me) dialogs, not pervasive.

I'll file some bugs next week.

- John