Re: [Evolution] How to make Evolution remember its main window size--revisited

[George Reeke <reeke mail rockefeller edu>]

On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 11:37 -0700, N B Day wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 12:08 -0400, George Reeke wrote:
> ....
> >    When I start evolution after a reboot, the main window comes
> > up too small.  I adjust it and it stays that way, even if
> > restarted, for the rest of the session, but does not remember
> > between sessions, at least not all the time.
> >    Taking the attitude that I don't really care if this is an
> > evolution or a window manager issue, I just wanted to fix it, so
> > I went poking around in all the hidden files in my home directory,
> > and in ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/shell/view-defaults there is a
> > file called %gconf.xml that has entries called 'height' and
> > 'width'. 
> Have you tried setting these values with the gconf-editor program?
>
> (Run gconf-editor from a terminal within gnome as yourself).  You'll
> find them under /Apps/Evolution.  Maybe hand editing them isn't sticky
> for some reason.
>
> regards,

Thanks for your suggestion.  For me, it doesn't work.
I killed evolution, changed the height and width in gconf editor in
two places, since the names are not unambiguous:
apps/evolution/mail/message_window and
apps/evolution/shell/view_defaults
Restarted evolution:  New sizes took effect.
Shut down evolution, rebooted computer--old small size is back again.
I will report this as a bug (unless somebody posts a message in the
next day or two that it has been fixed in more recent versions),
but again--can somebody just tell me please where it gets this
default main window size?
Regards,
George Reeke