GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 323183
Replace Window moves after pressing button
Last modified: 2006-01-23 03:10:56 UTC
Distribution/Version: Gentoo This is a usability bug. Steps to reproduce: 1. Go to Replace section. 2. Select keyword to look in the document 3. Mark "Prompt before replace" 4. Start pushing buttons This way everytime the button is pushed, the window goes to the right and down, it is very uncomfortable when you have a lot of replaces to make. On the side note, I'm using KDE 3.4.1, but there is no way to specify that. Thanks for attention
Confirmed on Debian too.
This is a known issue in the 1.0 branch. Right now the dialog essentially follows the mouse. A new search & replace dialog in CVS HEAD fixes this issue (the dialog in question no longer exists). In the 1.0 branch would be to change the dialog from using GTK_WIN_POS_MOUSE to GTK_WIN_POS_NONE. This would allow the window manager to determine the onscreen placement. However, this may cause the dialog to jump around the screen if the window manager isn't very intelligent. We could also remember the placement of the dialog onscreen and show it again in the same place.
Fixed in CVS.