Re: Window positions under wayland

2022-08-04 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Thursday, 4 August 2022 18:01:34 PDT Igor Korot wrote: > The very first time the application starts - it will be at position > (100,100) Then user drags the window to a position (50, 50) and closes the > application. When he tries to open it next time - (s)he expects the window > to be placed

Re: Window positions under wayland

2022-08-04 Thread Igor Korot
Hi, Thiago, On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 8:09 PM Thiago Macieira wrote: > > On Thursday, 4 August 2022 16:01:23 PDT Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > there might be bigger picture ideas BEHIND that like "i have a password > > dialog for my db app" - then great. make that dialog as such and make sure > > the

Re: Window positions under wayland

2022-08-04 Thread Igor Korot
Hi, Carsten, On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 6:02 PM Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 14:46:40 -0500 Igor Korot said: > > > Hi, Carsten, > > > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 2:31 PM Carsten Haitzler > > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 13:32:36 -0500 Igor Korot said: > > > > > > > Hi, >

Re: Window positions under wayland

2022-08-04 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Thursday, 4 August 2022 16:01:23 PDT Carsten Haitzler wrote: > there might be bigger picture ideas BEHIND that like "i have a password > dialog for my db app" - then great. make that dialog as such and make sure > the compositor knows what window it is a dialog for and a good > wm/compositor

Re: Window positions under wayland

2022-08-04 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 14:46:40 -0500 Igor Korot said: > Hi, Carsten, > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 2:31 PM Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > > On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 13:32:36 -0500 Igor Korot said: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 12:58 PM samuel ammonius > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Dude,

Re: Window positions under wayland

2022-08-04 Thread Igor Korot
Hi, Carsten, On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 2:31 PM Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 13:32:36 -0500 Igor Korot said: > > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 12:58 PM samuel ammonius > > wrote: > > > > > > Dude, I'm trying to persuade the wayland devs to change this, not have an > > >

Re: Window positions under wayland

2022-08-04 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 13:32:36 -0500 Igor Korot said: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 12:58 PM samuel ammonius wrote: > > > > Dude, I'm trying to persuade the wayland devs to change this, not have an > > argument about how much wayland sucks. Thanks for explaining that this was > > supposed to

Re: Window positions under wayland

2022-08-04 Thread Igor Korot
Hi, On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 12:58 PM samuel ammonius wrote: > > Dude, I'm trying to persuade the wayland devs to change this, not have an > argument about how much wayland sucks. Thanks for explaining that this was > supposed to be a feature though. I hadn't known that before. You most

Re: Window positions under wayland

2022-08-04 Thread samuel ammonius
Dude, I'm trying to persuade the wayland devs to change this, not have an argument about how much wayland sucks. Thanks for explaining that this was supposed to be a feature though. I hadn't known that before. On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 3:14 PM Igor Korot wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at

Re: Window positions under wayland

2022-08-04 Thread Igor Korot
Hi, On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 12:37 PM samuel ammonius wrote: > > Compositors can prevent apps from doing this if they want to, but there needs > to be some built-in way for windows to set their positions. Not having this > isn't a feature. I am not a Wayland developer. But based on the

Re: Window positions under wayland

2022-08-04 Thread samuel ammonius
Compositors can prevent apps from doing this if they want to, but there needs to be some built-in way for windows to set their positions. Not having this isn't a feature. On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 2:57 PM Igor Korot wrote: > On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 12:06 PM Simon Ser wrote: > > > > On Thursday,

Re: Window positions under wayland

2022-08-04 Thread Igor Korot
On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 12:06 PM Simon Ser wrote: > > On Thursday, August 4th, 2022 at 19:00, samuel ammonius > wrote: > > > apps such as popups and dialogs are usually supposed to start either > > at the center of the screen or the center of their parent app You are barking at the wrong tree.

Re: Window positions under wayland

2022-08-04 Thread Simon Ser
On Thursday, August 4th, 2022 at 19:00, samuel ammonius wrote: > apps such as popups and dialogs are usually supposed to start either > at the center of the screen or the center of their parent app That's usually what compositors do: center apps by default. But it's to the compositor and user

Window positions under wayland

2022-08-04 Thread samuel ammonius
I hope this hasn't been said a million times before, because I don't mean to pressure anyone. I'm not a wayland contributor. I just wanted to say that Wayland should really consider letting windows get/set their positions. The main reasons are that apps such as popups and dialogs are usually