[Users] [Bug 3194] New: Some dialogs/windows do not pop up in the center of the window / in the center of the screen

[N. W]

Hello,

knowing that Sylpheed is "irrelevant" here..., please still let me say
this:

> Colin Leroy wrote:
> 
> I have only one argument: it is painful as hell and takes a lot of
> work. I have a patch lying around that starts doing it, and I stopped
> after I hae to add 4 new dependancies to the build and I still didn't
> see the finish line.

Well, the Sylpheed developers managed to upgrade the Win32 version from
an even older GTK+ 2.10.14 to GTK+ 2.24.23, so I thought it wouldn't be
as difficult as you just described it.

Maybe it would help you to read this:

http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/redmine/issues/124

They are describing what they are doing there.

Here:

http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/redmine/projects/sylpheed/repository/revisions/3401/entry/NEWS

you can also see which versions of which libraries have been used (see
3.5.0beta1).

Hiroyuki said that he will probably release 3.5.0beta1 within the next
week:

http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/redmine/issues/13#note-18

So, as you can see, it is possible, which is why I asked ;P.

> Paul wrote:
>
> [...] I would say that it's (almost) impossible that the existence of
> a newer GTK+ would be unknown before you pointed it out. Therefore,
> pointing it out serves little purpose.
[...]

Well, when I asked Hiroyuki Yamamoto to upgrade the GTK+ 2 version in
Sylpheed Win32:

http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/redmine/issues/124

he told me he would like to do so, but couldn't, because of a bug in
later GTK+ 2 versions, which decreases performance with CJK characters.

However, at the time he was saying that, the bug has had been fixed
already for a long time, he just didn't know it. He later found out
though, partly due to me asking for an upgrade once in a while.

So, maybe if I wouldn't have asked to update to GTK+ 2.24.X, maybe he
would still think that this bug has not been fixed yet ;P.

So, I don't think it can hurt to ask once in a while ;P.

Regards