CENTER_ALWAYS behaviour
- From: Tim Janik <timj gtk org>
- To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- Cc: Gtk+ Developers <gtk-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: CENTER_ALWAYS behaviour
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:43:21 +0200 (CEST)
hi havoc,
you changed CENTER_ALWAYS behaviour in gtkwindow.c:
/* Position Constraints
* ====================
*
* POS_CENTER_ALWAYS is conceptually a constraint rather than
* a default. The other POS_ values are used only when the
* window is shown, not after that.
*
* However, we can't implement a position constraint as
* "anytime the window size changes, center the window"
* because this may well end up fighting the WM or user. In
* fact it gets in an infinite loop with at least one WM.
*
as in 1.2, CENTER_ALWAYS is intended to re-center the window
if the size requisition changed e.g.:
screen0 screenWidth
| +-----------------------+ |
| |WindowWithLabelCentered| |
| +-----------------------+ |
change Label:
| +---------------------------+ |
| |WindowWithLongLabelCentered| |
| +---------------------------+ |
but we now have:
| +---------------------------+ |
| |WindowWithLongLabelCentered| |
| +---------------------------+ |
you're right in the above comment in that we couldn't recenter upon
every size change, e.g. if the window manager gave us a new size (i.e.
size changes from configure events), but size changes due to widget
tree layout changes need to still trigger the recentering code.
for a test case, try GLE's selector window, it now only shrinks/grows
to the right, instead of recentering.
---
ciaoTJ
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