[Design] dialog.CenterOnSCreen() ?

Jeffrey Harris jeffrey at osafoundation.org
Wed Feb 7 10:24:43 PST 2007


Hi Heikki,

> We now have lots of dialogs that are centered using CenterOnScreen()
> method, which puts the dialog in the center of the whole display. I find
> this suboptimal, because it is not so easy to always tell which
> application such a dialog belongs to.
> 
> I think we should CenterOnParent(), which makes it clearer where the
> dialog belongs to.

Sounds good to me.  When I've used CenterOnParent its been because of
inertia, not any clear intention.

Jeffrey


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