On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 07:14:23PM +0200, Niclas Olofsson wrote:
> Ok, that is what I have now. Then the question is why hight is 
> respected, but not width?

Because half-width dialogs are ugly. (Maximum width hint is, however,
respected.) 

> Is 
> there an ion philosophy behind it, or is it just "as it happen to be 
> right now"?

Ideally all (small) app dialogs would be handled internally like minibuffers
and other bigger configuration dialogs or whatever as normal buffers/whatever
the app calls the documents it displays. The bottom-of-main-window placement
tries to emulate this minibuffer behaviour.

> Or perhaps this is the kind of thing that is too easy to modify myself, 
> so I shouldn't really bother you with it heehe :-))

convert_geom in ioncore/clientwin.c

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Tuomo

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