[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#315274: Menu is outside the screen when screen changes its resolution

[Fred Kiefer]

Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> Package: libgnustep-gui0.9
> Version: 0.9.5-1
> Tags: forwarded
> 
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> 
> When an application is started for first time the coordinates of the
> upper left corner are computed (in GNUstep (0,0) are the coordinates of
> the lower left corder) and the menu is placed there.  If the user moves 
> the menu to another place, exits the application and then restarts it, 
> the menu will stay at the place the user has left it.  This means that 
> the GNUstep applications remember the place of the menu.
> 
> The problem comes when the screen size changes to a smaller (for example 
> from 1280x1024 to 1024x768 or from 1024x768 to 800x600).  The previously 
> computed coordinates are already outside the screen, however GNUstep 
> failes to take this into account and the menu is unreachable.
> 
> I suppose that similar problem arises with the application windows also,
> although my window manager (wmaker) displays the usual application 
> windows always inside the screen, only the move-bar is sometimes outside 
> the screen.
> 
> I think that GNUstep shuld notice wnen the screen size is changed and
> display the menu using relative coordinates, not absolute coordinates. 
> For example the usual menu place is (0%, 100%) regardless of how big the
> screen is.  I am used to place my menu at the lower left corner in a way
> that only a thin bar of 1-2 pixels width is visible inside the screen. 
> After the recomputations of the new menu place GNUstep should ensure
> that at least 1 pixel of the header of the menu is inside the screen 
> (or probably even the whole header of the menu).
> 

Thanks for this bug report the behaviour should now be fixed in GNUstep CVS.

Cheers
Fred