-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:01 -0400, Emily Brantley wrote: > >>Does the "best-fit" window placement algorithm annoy anyone else ? >> >>After I open a couple of windows and all the vacant real-estate is gone, >>all the rest proceed to overlap one another almost as perfectly as >>possible all the way up in the top-left corner. Placing windows >>perfectly atop one another seems broken. > > > What you're describing is Metacity's behavior in FC3. It's even worse in > FC4. Every time I open a new window in FC4 I feel like throwing stuff > around because it doesn't seem to make any sense. When a couple of small > windows and opening a large one, Metacity will decide to mash the window > into some open space, best-fit or not. Combine that with the change that > opens new windows *under* the active window, and you have an excellent > recipe for GUI rage. Oh, you're very right. Try dragging and dropping a link to the desktop (which prompts you to link or download there). That prompt dialog NEVER has focus, requiring me to make the extra step of focusing it. What should be easier (dragging and dropping onto my desktop) becomes harder than Saving As. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCzDMGglUG+5Qgd5MRAjCPAJ9RWaH1ymt/fmI6r48e2H9UIVAaFQCfblhf Anc44r35nNAam4jsJpiVhDY= =tu2X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
