From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:39:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH (GITK) v3 6/6] gitk: Explicitly position popup windows.
Message-ID: <81b0412b0811070639q47244bc4t10791781fb0ec43b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <18708.11537.229423.296701@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

2008/11/7 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>:
> Alexander Gavrilov writes:
>
>> For some reason, on Windows all transient windows are placed
>> in the upper left corner of the screen. Thus, it is necessary
>> to explicitly position the windows relative to their parent.
>> For simplicity this patch uses the function that is used
>> internally by Tk dialogs.
>
> Is there any reason to call tk::PlaceWindow under Linux or MacOS?
> If not I'd rather add an if statement so we only call it on Windows.
>

Yes, please. I rather like the smart placement in compiz.