>>>>> "CRM" == Carlos R Mafra <[email protected]> writes:
>> First thing I thought is to hack into Placement Origin, and
>> implement some special values like -1, -1 to center either
>> horizontally or vertically in Automatic placement mode.
>>
>> But later I thought that I better to implement it as different
>> placement strategy. Special values for Automatic mode need more
>> changes in WPrefs, and I'm not good in interface design. On the
>> other hand adding new placer to WPrefs is trivial.
CRM>> But you can use the current slider in WPrefs to have a custom
CRM>> placement origin, and you can choose the (x,y) values which
CRM>> match with the center of your screen.
CRM>> So no change in WPrefs nor wmaker seems to be necessary,
CRM>> that's what I meant.
I tried to play with Placement Origin first, but I found that fixed
values is just not enough.
When I adjust placement origin for big windows (like firefox) then small
windows (terminal emulator) are displayed at the top of the screen and
it's very tedious to lift up my head to read terminal emulator.
When I adjust placement for the terminal emulator, firefox starts in the
way that bottom part of it is offscreen.
So I came to the need to have some special values to center window
regardless of its size. And as I told before, I thought about special
values for automatic placement but finally decided to add this feature
as separate placement function.
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