From: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:00:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH (GITK) v3 6/6] gitk: Explicitly position popup windows.
Message-ID: <bb6f213e0811110300maedee6bife5592afb27b48b7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <18708.11537.229423.296701@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
> 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.

I checked it on MacOS, and there the consequences of wm transient are
even worse that on Windows, so scrap this patch -- I'll redo it to fix
both cases.

Alexander