Re: About applications remembering size

[Manuel Clos <llanero eresmas net>]

Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:49:07PM +0200, Manuel Clos wrote:
>
> > The fixed-behaving app: *gnumeric*
> >
> > + open gnumeric -> you get a sized window
> > - resize the window, restart -> you the same size always!
>
> hmm, ok.  an easy extension.  bugzilla it.  Currently we have a pref
> for what fraction of the screen to use by default,  but do not
> auto update it.  With two documents open which size should a new
> window enumlate, the last resize ?

The one of the last closed window. This is, save position/size/state at 
window close.

> > - open a gnumeric document from nautilus -> it shows in maximized state!
>
> huh?  no.
> gnumeric restores the geometry stored in the document (gnumeric or
> xls) clipped to the display size.

Yes, you are right, saving the document also stores the size. But why is 
the size stored in the document? I see the point in doing it for 
folders, but for normal apps, I expect the size/position saving to be 
per app and not per document.

So I don't know what exactly should I bugzilla.

> > - unmaximize, resize the document, close, reopen the same document -> it 
> > shows in maximized state!
>
> Did you you save the document with the new size ?
>
>
> > - does not remember the last position.
>
> You want documents to store their position as well as their size ?
> Not impossible, but I'm unconvinced it is really useful either.
> We could add it to gnumeric's xml, but xls only provides it in the
> sense of where the document's MDI window is, and I don't recall if
> that info is in an sxc

From an user view, I didn't expect the documents to store the window 
size. Why is this done?

Perhaps it would be interesting to save the size/status for documents, 
and use the last size/status only for new documents.

It's a hard to discover feature anyway.

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Manuel Clos
llanero eresmas net

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