[sugar] palettes on non-fullscreen windows

Simon Schampijer simon at schampijer.de
Mon Mar 17 16:25:57 EDT 2008


Eben Eliason wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  on non-fullscreen windows palettes does have problems since the code
>>  seem to rely on gtk.gdk.screen_width() and gtk.gdk.screen_height(). For
>>  example in dialog windows like the control-panel the palette can be
>>  drawn outside the window (see attached screenshot).
> 
> I'm not sure that this is actually a problem.  As palettes act, in
> effect, like contextual menus, there seems to be no reason that we'd
> need to restrict them to the boundary of their parent window, except
> perhaps aesthetic ones. I don't find this to be too bad, so let's take
> the easy road for now and keep the behavior.
> 
> - Eben

Thanks Eben for this input. If you say 'this would only be aesthetic' 
for one time I will happily follow the easy road :)

Simon


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