Window games should start in the centre of the screen

[Volodya]

To reporduce:
Start a game
Note that (most) games will start in the upper-left corner of the screen, which is not very visually appealing.

Expected behaviour:
Games should start at the centre of the screen.

Games which need to be fixed:
Alien Blaster
Amphetamine
Anagramarama
Atomic Tanks
Atomix
Battleball
BilliardGL
Biloba
Black Jack (partially)
Blobwars
Bomberclone
Bos Wars
Burger Space
Defendguin
Einstein (when in Window mode clearly)
Emilia Pinball
Five or More
Four-in-a-Row
FreeCell
FreeDoom
glChess
Gnometris
GNUjump
Gravity Wars
Gunroar
Hex-a-Hop
lagno
Klotski
Majjongg (solitaire)
Mines
Multiplication Puzzle
Nibbles
Pacman (sort of... it's close to centre, but not there)
Pathological
Pingus
Robots
Same Gnome
Singularity
Slingshot
Spider
Sudoku
Tali
Tetravex
Ur-Quan Masters
xConq
xDigger
ZBlast

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, some comments though:
- that is probably a wm issue and not one in those softwares
- don't open lot of tasks on the same bug you will mail spam everybody subscribed to any task even after their task is closed
- what ubuntu version do you use? do you use the desktop effects? do you have anything else open on screen?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

bug triagers should close the zillion tasks which have been opened there

[Justin Dugger (jldugger)]

At least for gunroar, I'm not sure that centering is a better solution than say fullscreen.

[Justin Dugger (jldugger)]

Window placement is the role of the Window manager

[Volodya (volodya)]

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Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> - that is probably a wm issue and not one in those softwares

Definitely an issue with the specific softwares, as there are other games which
open in the centre of the screen just fine. Also some of the games described
open up slightly off upper-left corner (20px or so) while others are touching
the border of the screen.
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[Volodya (volodya)]

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> - what ubuntu version do you use? do you use the desktop effects? do you have anything else open on screen?

Ubuntu GNU/Linux 9.04
No effects, just plain old Gnome.
There was the browser and some other windows open as i was testing the games to
see which ones open up correctly and which ones do not.
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[Volodya (volodya)]

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Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> bug triagers should close the zillion tasks which have been opened there
>

I really do hope that the zillion tasks will not all be just closed, it took me
some time to just test which games open correctly and which don't, then adding
issues to only those specific games took a while.

"Won't fix" would be a more understandable response from some of the teams
working on the games than "Invalid" in this case.
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[Jon Dowland (jond)]

Even aside from the issue of responsibility (game or WM), freedoom is merely a lump of world data and does not draw any windows at all. The window drawing is performed by an engine, most likely "prboom".

[Jon Dowland (jond)]

My comments: definitely a window manager issue, although maybe some games could provide "hints" to the WM. The concept of "centered" doesn't even make sense in some environments (tiled awesome, ion2, ion3, etc.). If a game does try to position itself centrally, it would no doubt suffer from many bugs relating to what "centre" means in multi-screen environments, etc.

[LaserJock (laserjock)]

Atomix upstream is dead, marking as won't fix.

[Ryan Kavanagh (ryanakca)]

slingshot opens centered here. I've added an option upstream to have it full screen. And for the unlucky few where it isn't centered, I don't see any options in pygame.display to make it so. Marking as wont fix.

Thanks,
Ryan

[Evgeni Golov (evgeni)]

invalid as LP does not know "wontfix".
It's up to your WM to place windows.