Opening position inconsistency between apps

I assigned to elementary-design, I'll wait for their input on this and then decide whether to fix this or not, but it probably is a bug. Thank you for the bug report :)

Just want to mention that the Properties tab in Files also opens up in the top left corner. Should probably be fixed to open in the center.

Here's a screenshot of the Properties issue. I think it's just inheriting the window positioning of its parent.

Files already remembers its window position.

Looks like we need a HIG entry on window opening position.

Is it possible to hand this off to Gala?

What about Granite.Application/Window/Whatever?

It seems like it'd be a huge PITA (and maybe a bit unrealistic) to expect every app to handle this manually.

+1 for Granite.Window

Daniel, what's the desired behavior? Shall apps open in the position in which they were closed or always in the center of the screen or more complex algorithms should be used?

Well, it's not too hard to do "window.window_position = Gtk.WindowPosition.CENTER;" once, but I'm not opposed to a GraniteWindow either.
Gala can't reposition windows manually, only after it has been spawned, so practically the window would spawn at the position given by the app and then be moved somewhere else once the animation has finished.

I think the desired behavior is probably:

On first run: Center
Every other time after that: Remember

Having, for example, my empathy contacts list always spawn center would be quite troublesome ;p

I think we've discussed having a Granite.Window a few times for things like setting a sane default minimum size, for this, and anything else we can think of in the future. So, maybe we can move the Granite.Window discussion to the mailing list and target this as a Luna +1 feature for Granite?

Yes, this bug is not for Luna. Let's work on a Granite.Window for Luna +1 with this features.

Still, for Luna, don't you think the Terminal should remember Window position?

@David, if you have time to implement it in Terminal that would be cool. But, we probably won't solve this for every app in Luna, so I wouldn't make it a serious milestone goal.

Here's the Granite.Window blueprint if anyone wants to add their thoughts and expectations: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/granite/+spec/granite.window

So you plan to not have apps remember their last size/position?

@Victor, well like I said, I wouldn't call it a beta blocker. If we want to implement this in beta2 sure.

But I think, to avoid doing the coding twice, it might be better to just wait for the next version of granite (either in Luna +1 or mid-Luna cycle).

For Luna, the Terminal will be saving its position on close and restore it on start up.

There is no Granite.Window object yet, so this is definitively a bug to fix in a code which does not exist yet, so it is for 0.3 for Granite.

I remember reading that the norm is for the WM to handle the first run spawn area, and let the app handle any subsequent spawns. So Gala should be able to make windows open in the center on first run, and hopefully Granite can help them to remember their position.

Marking as invalid for Granite. These days mutter opens new windows at center