Hi, On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 12:37 PM samuel ammonius <sfammon...@gmail.com> 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 multiple replies here and there - it is the main feature of the Wayland. It will never allow the application to set its position/size. It will however allow the end-user (a human) to configure Wayland (compositor) in any waythey want and however stupid they want. And Wayland developers consider it to be "BIG WAYLAND FEATURE". So forget about cross-platform applications behaving the same, forget about even writing sane application on Linux. Wayland (compositor) will be set up by the user (a human) in such a way so that the application could become completely unusable. Thank you. > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 2:57 PM Igor Korot <ikoro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 12:06 PM Simon Ser <cont...@emersion.fr> wrote: >> > >> > On Thursday, August 4th, 2022 at 19:00, samuel ammonius >> > <sfammon...@gmail.com> 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. >> >> Apparently this is the main feature of the Wayland - do not let the >> developers >> set up the position of the TLW. >> >> > >> > That's usually what compositors do: center apps by default. But it's to >> > the compositor and user preference. >> > >> > > apps often want to remember where they were when they closed so they >> > > can open there again >> > >> > This is what [1] addresses. >> > >> > [1]: >> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/18 >> >> Finally!! ;-) >> Now if only Wayland can respect the calls such as >> CenterOnScreen()/CenterOnParent() >> for the dialog-like windows it would be great. >> >> Unfortunately it looks like this will never happen and the application >> developers will >> have to throw away their software, because apparently dialogs can be >> put anywhere >> on the screen. >> >> Something like a dialog asking for credentials to login to the DB that >> shows up in the >> top left corner, because some idiot user set it this way. >> >> Thank you.
