Parent windows for system dialogs

Nicolas Fella nicolas.fella at gmx.de
Wed Jun 29 14:01:13 BST 2022


On 6/29/22 09:10, Vlad Zahorodnii wrote:
> On 6/29/22 01:35, Nicolas Fella wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we have several places where we have "system" dialogs that don't have a
>> "real" parent window. Examples would be stuff like KWallet, network
>> management, or anything spawned by kded where there's no corresponding
>> app window. Currently, at least on Wayland, they are placed
>> semi-randomly on the screen, which isn't particularly nice. See e.g.
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456060. They probably should be
>> centered in the/a screen.
>
> It's odd. With the default placement policy (centered) "orphan" dialog
> windows should be centered on Wayland.

With Centered placement policy they seem to be centered indeed. With
"Minimal Overlapping" they appear in some corner though




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