From kwin Fri Aug 30 12:43:31 2002 From: Lubos Lunak Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:43:31 +0000 To: kwin Subject: Re: [Kwin] Fwd: [RFC][PATCH] kwin/workspace: don't force new placement X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kwin&m=103071144410740 On Friday 30 August 2002 14:26, Cristian Tibirna wrote: > On Friday, 30 August 2002 05:47, Lubos Lunak wrote: > > I actually agree here. Cristian? > > I don't, but I understand the concerns raised. > > My problem with keeping old placement when moving window to a new desktop > is that, 90% os cases (at least on my computer), the window I was moving > was ending up in a place where there already was a window (obvious: moving > to another desktop a window that was initially placed at (0,0) puts that > window at the same place as the first placed window on the destination > desktop). And since selecting the new desktop gives the focus to (and > eventually raises) the window that had focus on that desktop when last we > visited it, the newly moved window almost always ends up covered > underneath. And IMNSHO, _this_ comes with a bigger factor of surprise > ("where's my window??"). Actually, this is not true since some time ago. After moving a window to a different desktop, it's raised ( to cite one your sentence : 'Anyways, I added that patch following only my own usage experience and only after I was annoyed for months in a row by the ill behavior.' :) ). -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SuSE CR, s.r.o. e-mail: l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org Drahobejlova 27 tel: +420 2 9654 2373 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 2 9654 2374 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ _______________________________________________ Kwin mailing list Kwin@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kwin