Window placement

[Fabrice Rey]

> "The question is: what action triggers it to make this ring of icons
appear?"
A global shortkey (and yes I know it's not yet possible on Wayland, that's
another problem on its own).

> "What's the application doing? Does it have keyboard focus but is
potentially not under the mouse pointer? Do you have a screenshot or video
of this feature you can share?"
I'm not the developper of it, I actually don't even use it ^^ I was just
thinking of it to see how it would fit in Wayland, what's potentially
missing now in the protocol.
Here is an article about it:
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/gnome-pie-02-released.html and a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFQDyZyMxO4.
Basically, it appears under the mouse when you trigger the shortkey, and
you can also use the keyboard to navigate in the items.
So I see 2 main points here:
- it places its window not relatively to a parent (which there is not), but
to the mouse
- it takes the (keyboard) focus when it appears
The second point is not related to this topic, so we can probably think of
it later.



2014-07-02 21:26 GMT+02:00 Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com>:

>
>
> On 07/02/2014 11:39 AM, Fabrice Rey wrote:
>
>>  > "I am not sure if wayland should allow this, and whether there are
>> clients that expect this to work"
>> Well, there is at least one application that exists and displays a ring
>> of icons under the mouse. So, it needs to tell the compositor to place
>> its window to (dx;dy) relatively to the mouse.
>>
>
> The question is: what action triggers it to make this ring of icons appear?
>
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