[compiz] Patch for place plugin (Cascade, Centered, ...)

[David Reveman]

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 01:56 +0000, Mike Dransfield wrote:
> David Reveman wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 13:50 +0100, Bellegarde Cedric wrote:
> >   
> >> Here is a patch for place plugin.
> >>
> >> It add a "place_mode" option wich actually can have two values: "Cascade" 
> >> (original placement mode) and "Centered".
> >>     
> >
> > Patch looks OK but I'm not sure how useful the Centered mode is. Please
> > explain more why someone would prefer using this mode instead of the
> > default behavior.
> 
> I personally would prefer windows to be centered
> when I start, it is very useful on a widescreen.

I guess that's not too weird. I should include this patch.

btw, has anyone looked at creating a placement plugin from the placement
code in kwin. It includes a number of different placement algorithms.
Makes more sense to use that code than to re-implement it.

-David