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List:       kwin
Subject:    Re: [Kwin] centered window placement patch
From:       Shane Wright <me () shanewright ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-04-23 16:23:02
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Hi David,

Sorry for the late reply - missed your post on the list

> > Thats fair enough - I just felt it might be useful :)   There is only one
> > bug report/feature request for it too; back from May 2001 (#25309).
> I'd find it very useful if it is clever about the circumstances under
> which it places centered windows.

How do you mean clever?  at the moment it works in the same way as other 
placement policies (IIRC only gets called at all when new windows opened that 
aren't transient and dont have settings already saved).  Admittedly, after 
having been using it for a month now I'd like to add some jitter to it - so 
when I open lots of the same sort of window they aren't all in exactly the 
same position

> Since I added some sort of extended workspace support* to the version of
> KWin in KDE 2.2.2, I encounter empty screens fairly regularly as I move
> around the desktop and open documents. Opening centered window on crowded
> desktops would be a good thing, too. I can't often predict where windows
> are going to open when the screen is cluttered and this patch would remove
> the guesswork!

Too true!  More intelligence in it is perhaps needed though - I'm planning on 
experimenting a bit with perhaps a 'centered-random' placement or a 
'centered-but-not-exactly-on-the-window-underneath' policy.  Getting a bit 
extreme I know, but I havent scratched my itch yet, so to speak...

> Since I added some sort of extended workspace support* to the version of
> KWin in KDE 2.2.2, I encounter empty screens fairly regularly as I move
> * I mentioned this modification before and I'd like to produce patches
> for a version of KDE 3.x, but my employer wants to do some usability
> testing on it before it gets released into the wild.

oooh, what's extended workspace support?

- -- 
Shane
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