Window Placement

[Emily Brantley]

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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.
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