Re: xdg-shell and always centered surfaces

2015-04-14 Thread Bill Spitzak
Lots of applications take a long time before they can generate the initial window image, so they show a "splash screen" so the user knows the application started. They are also often required to display legally-required information (branding, copyright, etc) without cluttering the main window w

Re: xdg-shell and always centered surfaces

2015-04-13 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
Hi. set_window_geometry is about the "window geometry" of a surface, relative to the overall surface. It's a difficult concept to explain, but I feel the docs do a good enough job. Currently it's not possible to specify initial window location. Can you give your exact use case here so we can thin

xdg-shell and always centered surfaces

2015-04-13 Thread x414e54
I have been working on a GUI toolkit and looking to experiment porting it to wayland. Currently I am using a wl_shell_surface and have dialogs, tooltips, etc. working fine, just waiting on relative mouse for implementing spinners, rotations etc. However I am looking at positioning the initial par