Having gone through this exact decision process for an image viewing tool at both a production and tech company, I vote for leaving it up to the window system.
I have a tried and true rule for these sorts of features: Smartness == Badness When programmers try to made convenience features, they often end up making life worse for thier users through the law of unintended consequences. On Mar 30, 2012 6:39 PM, "Larry Gritz" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a dual display and it did not split when I tested it. But I can't > swear that it will be fine for all 2-monitor configurations. On the other > hand, I couldn't make any guarantees about the old way, either. > > I'm somewhat tempted not to integrate that part of the patch, since the > window placement was not something that anybody had complained about > before, so to me it only represents a possible future bug without an > obvious improvement. But I thought I'd check to see if maybe people didn't > like the old behavior but never bothered to say anything about it. > > -- lg > > > On Mar 30, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Stephen Parker wrote: > > I vote for leave it up to the window system. Was this tested on dual > displays? In particular, twinview? Does it land half on one monitor, half > on the other? > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Larry Gritz <[email protected]> > *To:* OpenImageIO developers <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, March 30, 2012 4:15 PM > *Subject:* [Oiio-dev] Opinions wanted: center iv window or not? > > https://github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio/pull/221 > > In this pull request, Alexander Murashko proposes making iv always bring > its window up initially centered on the display. > > Anybody want to weigh in on whether this is a good or bad idea? > > I think the current behavior is just to leave it up to the window system. > > > -- > Larry Gritz > [email protected] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Oiio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org > >
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