Re: Remember Window Position

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi Esben,

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Esben Stien wrote:

> Please, someone speak up. This is non-sense and it directly conflicts
> with the gnome philosophy;).

How exactly does it conflict with the GNOME philosophy?

> > If I want that kind of feature then I choose a WM that has it
>
> The wm should not hold such a database of each application. Imagine
> you change window manager. State information is something the
> application keep and is a common practice in most applications.

I must confess that I never really noticed this problem. It is debatable 
if 'window position' is part of an applications' state. Is this 
desirable? Window size is retained between sessions, that's for certain.

In any event, changing window managers is not something GNOME can worry 
about. If you choose not to use metacity then you're treading on 
unsupported territory. If the problem happens with metacity, I'm sorry 
but I doubt that we can solve this.

Hmm, it does make me wonder how spatial nautilus manages it...

regards,

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Reinout van Schouwen