Compiz should place all windows in the center unless explicitly told otherwise.

Bug #734159 reported by Avi Romanoff
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
elementary OS
Fix Released
Medium
Avi Romanoff

Bug Description

This just makes for a better experience overall. While some apps (Dexter, Empathy, Purple, etc) start centered, others (Midori, Shotwell, Postler etc) start via "SMART" placement, which is a corner of the screen of varying location. This, to me, is an annoyance and causes inconsistency. Rather than patching individual apps, compiz has a neat toggle to set all windows as starting in the center of the display, unless explicitly told otherwise by the application. This should, imo, be switched on ootb in elementaryOS.

Changed in elementaryos:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Avi Romanoff (aroman)
Changed in elementaryos:
assignee: nobody → Avi Romanoff (aroman)
milestone: none → 0.1-rc
summary: - Compiz should place all windows in the center unless explicatively told
+ Compiz should place all windows in the center unless explicitly told
otherwise.
Avi Romanoff (aroman)
Changed in elementaryos:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames) wrote :

I dented this a little while ago, glad to see it is going to be ootb! :D

http://identi.ca/notice/66623141

Avi Romanoff (aroman)
Changed in elementaryos:
status: Fix Committed → In Progress
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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