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Re: Does metacity allow, "first fit" instead of "20 pixels down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Jun 16 12:16:44 2005
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:16:33 -0400
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On the one hand, I applaud a step in the direction of, "Let's offer only
a few vitally useful features instead of the 'kitchen sink' syndrome
that seems to have taken hold everywhere.
On the other hand, if I'm going to saddle myself with that kitchen sink
that is GNOME, I'd really RATHER that I NOT lose functionality when the
default window manager changes.
-wdc
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 11:57 -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 11:35 -0400, Bill Cattey wrote:
> > This is a settable parameter in Sawfish, "First fit" I think.
> > I could find no such parameter in the GNOME online help nor in the GNOME
> > control center. It would be really disappointing to discover that the
> > world adopted a newer window manager that forgot how to do a diverse set
> > of default positionings.
>
> Metacity's philosophy is not to provide a "diverse set" of anything,
> really. So, it's not surprising at all that it wouldn't have an option
> to do this.
>
