Re: Live CD and others general GNUstep remarks

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 9 févr. 05, à 00:24, Fred Kiefer a écrit :

> > There was also the problem that some apps had their windows "outside" 
> > the screen. Actually, at the moment
> > the windows' positions are encoded in the gorm files... and imho 
> > that's a bit wrong ! with wmaker it's not that much
> > of a problem, because you can move the windows with alt-clicking... 
> > but that's only true if you know that trick :-)
> > Frankly, the windows' position shouldn't be encoded in Gorm; it's 
> > just wrong.
>
> This sounds like it needs to be changed. Perhaps we could use similar 
> code as is applied for default settings (see below). We would need to 
> archive the screen rectangle along with the window frame. Gregory, as 
> window encoding is very much Gorm related, I would like to get your 
> opinion on this first.

Well, it's not that -- it's just that Gorm shouldn't save the position, 
so the windows position will be the windows manager problem -- which is 
exactly
its role. Then after the position will be saved in the defaults as 
needed, but that's ok.

> > Another related problem (not specific to the live cd) is that apps 
> > save their windows position in the defaults
> > database -- that's good, but there's a slight problem: If the user 
> > change resolution to a lower one...
> > One solution, perhaps, would be to associate the positions with the 
> > actual resolution -- so you'd save the positions
> > for each resolution...
>
> No, this should not cause any problem, the code already adopts the 
> window position to the screen size, just as you did suggest 
> (setFrameFromString:). It does not try to change the size of the 
> window, though.

hmm right.. well it should at least take in account the height of the 
windows, to modify the window position to have at least the titlebar on 
the screen...
Although having positions encoded by resolution would still be, imho, 
better. In a big res I won't place my windows like I place them in 
800x600 ...

Cheers,

--
Nicolas Roard
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
 -Arthur C. Clarke