Re: Respecting standard X options (diatribe)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Alan Shutko <ats acm org> writes: 
> Beyond that, you start getting into trouble.  --geometry and
> --geometry should be easy to support, but doesn't appear to be.  (I
> guess the reason gtk doesn't support it by default is that it doesn't
> know what window that should apply to, so it's an app issue.) 

Exactly. People keep saying "GTK should just support this" but no one
has ever come up with an explanation for how that's possible. ;-) 

Unless you want all windows for the app to get the --geometry, or the
first one, neither of which makes any sense.

Havoc