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Bug 138290 - Come up with good placement policy for UTILITY
Come up with good placement policy for UTILITY
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks: 155460
 
 
Reported: 2004-03-27 15:54 UTC by Rob Adams
Modified: 2008-02-22 02:38 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Rob Adams 2004-03-27 15:54:22 UTC 
Utility window placement currently sucks.  We should figure out what to do with
these things and implement it.
Comment 1 Thomas Thurman 2008-02-18 01:00:11 UTC 
I am marking this INVALID to get it out of the NEW queue and because it's clearly not really a bug. Rob, or anyone:
 * do you think it still sucks?
 * do you have any particular points of suckage?
 * do you have any suggestions how it could not suck?
 * do you think any other WM does them non-suckily?

Rob: would you like posting access on the Metacity blog if you want to discuss these things there?
Comment 2 Elijah Newren 2008-02-19 04:11:50 UTC 
For reference, IIRC, Rob wrote a lot of the metacity window placement code.  I've heard other complaints too; basically, we just haven't done anything with the things.

Asking the GIMP folks might be a good way to start.  *shrug*.
Comment 3 Soren Sandmann Pedersen 2008-02-21 04:30:11 UTC 
One thing that has bothered me for a long time is that new windows pop up in the corner of the screen if there is not enough blank space. I think I'd prefer if they were centered.

But clearly, I haven't cared enough to actually do anything about it.
Comment 4 Elijah Newren 2008-02-22 02:38:12 UTC 
Soeren: Yeah, I agree.  That's really not specific to utility windows, though.  (I do have a bunch of comments about that in a separate bug somewhere...)