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 suppo
gt; > 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
, 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 develo
I've got an idea: why not just add an API for getting/setting windows
location and let the compositor handle it? It may choose to ignore it,
follow it, follow it on the right monitor, or any number of things. It can
also let the user decide through the preferences. I think it would be a
better solu
Please don't close this discussion on account of something someone
else said. Wouldn't it be better for users, compositors, and apps if there
was a way to manage window positions, but the compositor could choose
not to let them? The best apps typically have an option in the preferences
for windows
I don't understand what all the talk is about when discussing whether
it should be up to the compositor or app to set a window's position.
On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 2:30 PM Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 at 17:21, Igor Korot wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 9:20 PM Thiago Macieira wrot
(I accidentally sent that without finishing it. Just ignore it)
On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 5:54 PM Igor Korot wrote:
> Hi, Samuel,
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 3:21 PM samuel ammonius
> wrote:
> >
> > I don't understand what all the talk is about when discussing wheth
I don't understand why we're all asking if it should be up to the
compositor or app to set a
window's position. The only correct answer is that it should be up to the
user, so I don't
see what's wrong with my suggestion of a "set window size request"
function. Waylands
idea of not letting apps set
Sorry, I just read over my last email and realized that I didn't even state
what I was trying
to say. I meant my last suggestion of letting the compositor handle the
resize event. I was
just giving some reasons as to why it may be the best solution.
On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 6:32 PM samuel amm
ing this, however.
>
If I added this feature through git, would it be accepted? It would just be
"void wl_surface_request_position(wl_surface *surface, unsigned int x,
unsigned int y);"
On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 8:14 PM samuel ammonius wrote:
> Sorry, I just read over my last email an
rotocols and used them to create a simple
one for position set/get.
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Hi,
On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 12:06 PM Simon Ser wrote:
> If you are not interested in explaining the use-cases, and are just
> interested in blindly adding new features: sorry, but this isn't how we
> want to approach things.
Sorry for not giving a more specific answer to this earlier. The main
Hi Daniel,
I've just looked at the xdg-shell protocol as you said. I was really
surprised at the
amount of features it had, but one part in particular caught my eye:
The window geometry of a
surface is its "visible bounds" from theuser's perspective.
Client-side decorations of
(I forgot to mention in the above message that I was looking at the
unstable version)
On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 1:54 PM samuel ammonius wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I've just looked at the xdg-shell protocol as you said. I was really
> surprised at the
> amount of features it
Hi Igor,
I don't understand why you would want to be able to control where a
dialog goes. I'd normally agree that applications should be given the
option to do whatever they want, but a dialog is literally the worst
example possible second only to splash screens. Wayland allows
the user to control
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