Re: [Nautilus-list] remembering different properties in different directories?

[Josh Barrow <drleary mac com>]

On 10/16/01 7:18 PM, "John Harper" <jsh unfactored org> wrote:

> John Sullivan writes:
> |This doesn't seem to be a very strong argument for window manager control.
> |Putting a splash screen at a hardwired location is simply bad. Centering it
> |on the screen is always better. The application should be able to center the
> |splash screen. Why does the window manager need to get involved?
> 
> Maybe it gets more complex if you have more than one video card, e.g.
> the obvious algorithm for centering the splash screen might put it over
> the join between the two monitors!

Wouldn't the obvious thing to do in this case be to place the splash screen
in the center of the screen from which the application was launched?  That
doesn't seem to tough.

Josh

> 
> imho the window manager is better for these things because there is
> only one of them running at once, so all application's splash screens
> (using this example) will be placed using the same algorithm. This
> means it's more likely to (a) work correctly, and (b) be consistent,
> than if each application implemented it's own splash screen placement
> policy,
> 
> John
> 
> 
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