[Glade-devel] [glade-3] minor GUI issues

[pborelli katamail com (Paolo Borelli)]

On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 13:41 +0100, David A Knight wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 19:51 +0200, Paolo Borelli wrote:
>
> > IMHO the positions should not be hardcoded and if they do not appear in
> > useful positions I'd consider that a bug in the WM... in practice
> > however it may make sense.
> > To save the window positions all the other apps I know of use gconf, but
> > we currently do not depend on it.
>
> glade should not depend on gconf.  Havoc explicitly states that gconf
> should not be used for state information like window positioning.  In a
> lock down environment the keys may not even be writable.  State
> information should be kept in a file, which is what epiphany does, and
> what screem does.

Storing this stuff in ~/.glade is ok with me... I guess that then gedit,
totem and devhelp (the apps I was thinking of) are broken in this regard
[1].

Ali also suggested that session management is planned for gtk-2.6...
OTOH that look quite distant in the future and may always switch to it
later.

ciao
        paolo


[1]: actually they store the window dimension not the position, but the
same reasoning applies