Window placement

[Fabrice Rey]

> " I think you can make the circular menu a child window. Make it a child
of whatever surface received the keystroke"
You can't, there is no child window. The application has 1 window that
appears under the mouse at a relative position that only the application
knows. The absolute mouse position is not necessary if you can specify an
offset to it.


2014-07-02 1:01 GMT+02:00 Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com>:

>
>
> On 07/01/2014 03:33 PM, Fabrice Rey wrote:
>
>> Pekka I think you misunderstod my point, let me try to be more clear.
>> The "circular menu" is actually just a window, that paints some icons on
>> a ring. It doesn't have a parent window, and that's the problem.
>> How in Wayland will we be able to place this window so that its center
>> is right on the cursor position ?
>> We know the mouse position only relatively to a surface, but here we
>> need the mouse position on the screen, and then positionning the window
>> relatively to it.
>> In short, you press the shortkey, and then a ring of icons appear
>> scentered on the cursor. The question is "how?"
>>
>
> I think you can make the circular menu a child window. Make it a child of
> whatever surface received the keystroke.
>
> The only problem remaining is that the client may not know the current
> position of the mouse relative to this surface.
>
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