[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] gui-gtk transient windows

["SamBC" <sambc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

But it is still a good idea to be completely explicit in how windows should
be handled, is it not?

My £0.02

SamBC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Burrows [mailto:daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> Daniel Burrows
> Sent: 02 July 2000 23:31
> To: Dennis Bjorklund
> Cc: freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] gui-gtk transient windows
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 05:13:26PM +0200, Dennis Bjorklund
> <dennisb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
> > The problem with the window manager (sawfish) is that before it saw all
> > the toplevel windows as beeing the same. That ment that it used
> the saved
> > size to set the initial size of the windows. And it used the
> same size for
> > all these windows which made some of them looks really stupid.
>
>   This is a bug in sawfish: it defaults to saving window states
> on exit, which
> is not often appropriate (image viewers are another place where
> this can cause
> problems).  People have complained on the mailing list, and John
> Harper (its
> author) has agreed to switch it off by default in the next
> release.  In the
> meantime, you can turn this off in your customization dialog box,
> I think..
>
>   Daniel
>
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