On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 03:46 -0500, Paul wrote:
> Esben Stien <b0ef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on Fri Dec 30, 2005 [07:24:47 AM] said:
> > Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > the app can't be responsible for remembering the position of its
> > > windows?
> >
> > I would strongly disagree;). I think this is exactly the apps
> > responsibility. The WM should not maintain a database over every
> > window that an app may open. That's absurd;). Imagine apps like
> > Nautilus, Gimp and such. It's not very cumbersome to switch WM either
> > as all will be lost.
>
> Hi;
>
> The application can specify its desired geometry, both size
> and placement, but the window manager can ignore it. Unfortunately, it
> seems like qt apps seem to mostly ignore the -geometry command line
> option. So, you can blame either the app, or the wm. But in the case
> of a qt app, they dont seem to make any effort to deal with the situation.
> My qt app obeys the geometry, qjackctl and qdvdauthor, as a trivial test
> do not...
>
My apps do the same but subwindows did not honor placement in KDE
prior to 3.4.
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