[devel] Fw: Re: [Gabber] Dialog position problems

[Vyt <vyt@vzljot.ru>]

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Hello, All!

Касается проблемы с неправильным начальным расположением диалогов
в gabber. Оказалось, здесь замешан gnomecc:

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Date: 01 Mar 2002 22:48:30 -0500
From: Julian Missig <julian@jabber.org>
To: Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com>
Subject: Re: [Gabber] Dialog position problems


On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 19:55, Decklin Foster wrote:
> Julian Missig writes:
> 
> > temas (Thomas Muldowney) just found the source of the problems with
> > dialogs. The gnome set_parent function literally does move the dialog
> > over the parent if you have "Place dialogs over application window when
> > possible" enabled in the Look and Feel -> Dialogs section of Gnome
> > Control Center. Dialog position should also be set to "Let window
> > manager decide" and Dialog hints should be "Dialogs are treated
> > specially by window manager"
> 
> Thanks. I don't even have gnome-control-center (or libcapplet0) on this
> machine, but I installed them (and then removed them, as it's 2320kb of
> stuff I'd never use otherwise) to fix the problem, and this is what got
> added to ~/.gnome/Gnome:
> 
> [UI_Dialogs]
> DialogType=Dialog
> DialogPosition=None
> Dialog_is_Centered=false
> 
> Just in case anyone else out there doesn't have gnomecc, and wants to
> quickly add it by hand. I don't see why the defaults can't be in the
> file along with explanatory comments, but maybe it's just my setup (I
> don't think I've clobbered since back when Debian got 1.0 packages).

Because that part of the file isn't created by anything but gnome
control center. Yes, gnome_config sucks.

> 
> (I also had to restart Gabber. What's up with that? Oh well.)

gnome-libs apparently only load those preferences when the application
first starts them. Again, another reason why gnome_config sucks :)

Julian
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