Re: nautilus initial window size

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 31 May 2002, Frank Worsley wrote:

> > It might make it more difficult for the user to set the same geometry
> > for multiple directories.  But that's no worse than requiring the user
> > to close the window....
> 
> So I'm just trying to make this work and it's a little problematic.
> 
> I'm using the configure_event to figure out when the window gets
> resized. But that's emitted constantly while the user resizes the
> window, so we save geometry all the time. That's off course less than
> ideal ... especially if you save to a slow disk.
> 
> Is there a GTK event that lets me know when a user grabs the window
> handles and when he lets go of them? That way I can just wait for the
> 'user let go' event and save the geometry then.

No. X doesn't have anything like that.
 
> Otherwise I could add a timeout to the configure event callback that
> saves the geometry if no new configure event has occured after a certain
> amount of time. Of course that's kind of a bad hack.

It's the only way i can think of.

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