On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 22:27 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >> Is there a way to avoid having the properties dialog pop up *over* the > >> currently selected object? > >> > >> This happens quite often to me, so it'd be nice if the dialog could take > >> into consideration the location of the selected object and pop up to the > >> side if needed. > >> > >> Should I file an enhancement request for this? > > > > X doesn't allow absolute positioning of windows, but you can suggest a > > position. We don't right now suggest anything, letting the window manager > > do what the user has asked for. While it wouldn't be technically > > impossible to give such hints (though the upcoming multi-object properties > > makes it trickier), I'm a bit leery of messing with that. > > Ok, I can understand that. This is however one of the more annoying things > to me when using Dia regurarly. I often have to fiddle with font size, > line widths etc on many objects in order to get a consistent look. More > often than not, the dialog pops up in the wrong place.
I know this isn't a fix, but do you have your window manager set up such that a key combo lets you move a window by clicking anywhere in it? I rarely think much of where windows are placed anymore, as moving them around is dead easy - no time wasted finding a window bar to drag with, and my left hand is always close to the windows key anyway. -Lars _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
