Bug 72167

Summary:	partially off screen window placement of dialog boxes
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	David L. Parsley <parsley>
Component:	gnome-panel	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
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Description David L. Parsley 2002-08-21 17:13:23 UTC

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Description of problem:
When I bring up various dialog boxes, they are placed in close proximity to the
mouse, frequently with part of the box off screen at the bottom.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
(this is just one example; others do this too, but this is the worst I've seen)

1. Right click the panel
2. Click 'Add to panel' ... 'Launcher...'
	

Actual Results:  Dialog box is mostly off screen at the bottom.  Has to be moved
to use it.

Expected Results:  Dialog box entirely visible.

Additional info:

I hope this isn't a duplicate (seems pretty easy to spot); I tried about 6
different searches.  ;-)

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-08-21 18:33:51 UTC

I think the Launcher dialog is a panel problem.

Let me know about other specific dialogs.

Comment 2 David L. Parsley 2002-08-21 19:05:37 UTC

OK, I tested this also w/ 'Dia', which is why I originally filed against metacity:

- Open 'dia'
- Drag dia to bottom of screen (partially off screen), such that clicking the
file menu still (but just barely) puts the menu below (instead of flipping it up)
- Click 'File'...'Open'

The 'Ok' & 'Cancel' buttons are buried in the panel.

I tried 'gnome-mines', too:
- Drag gnome-mines mostly off-screen at bottom
- Click 'Settings'...'Preferences'

Dialog is mostly off screen.

Essentially, any time there's a dialog that pops up 'close to the mouse', it
might be off screen on the bottom if the mouse happens to be near the bottom. 
The Panel - Launcher example is just the most common occurence.

Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-08-21 19:47:50 UTC

Right, but metacity can't really do anything about it if apps are dumb and
insist their dialog should be there. Since there's a spec that says you have to
do what apps say. Need to track down and destroy these app bugs.

Comment 4 David L. Parsley 2002-08-22 12:27:08 UTC

Ok, agreed; so this is just a panel bug that should be fixed.  I don't think
it's worth bothering with the others at this point, since you have to go out of
your way to trigger them.

Comment 5 Havoc Pennington 2002-08-25 19:16:02 UTC

2.0.6-6 gnome-panel should fix this. dialogs probably come up centered now.

Comment 6 Jay Turner 2002-09-03 20:31:24 UTC

The menu flip-up issue is resolved with gnome-panel-2.0.6-9, but the dialog box
for gnome-mines still comes up off screen.  A couple of others apps come up
off-screen as well, but the majority of them are centered, so closing out.