Re: Desktop/Window alignment (spatial?)

[Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>]

Hi,

> At the moment, unvisited windows are just placed by metacity like normal
> windows. However, i think your idea actually has some merits in the
> general case too. If you open a new small window, any window, chances
> are that you don't want it to cover the typical icons on the left hand
> (and possibly right hand) side of the desktop.

And in fact this was one of the main issues coming out of one of the Sun
usability studies, which didn't seem to get published :( Calum?

Glynn