suggestion & PATCH: center shutdown-dialog on screen containing mouse-pointer

[Thomas Gahr]

Hello!

This concerns kde-workspace

In my dual-screen setup I have a second instance of the kde-menu on the second 
screen and what has always been bugging me:
When I activate "logout" or "shutdown" or alike from this kde-menu the 
confirmation-dialog always gets shown on screen #0 no matter what.
So I cooked up this little patch which adds 6 characters of code and a lot of 
joy for me ;)

I tested this on Fedora15's kdebase-workspace-4.7.0 packages and it works like 
a charm, I don't think that this patch can introduce any major problems.

No difference for users of single-screen configuration. Only difference for users 
of multi-screen configuration: if shutdown is triggered by a hotkey and not by 
mouse, the dialog will still get centered on the screen containing the mouse-
pointer. But I can't imagine that this is a major usability issue since the 
user's attention tends to be where the mouse-pointer is anyway.

Though tbh I have no idea how this will behave on touch devices...

Cheers,

Thomas Gahr
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