On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Kalle Vahlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/18 Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 18:38 +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: >>> 2008/6/18 Matthew Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> > I think I'm correct in saying the GConf approach is preferred, but are >>> > there use cases for supporting a --geometry option as well? Perhaps >>> > just for consistency across apps? >>> >>> I can't think of any reason why that couldn't be a part of gtk_init(), >>> that way it'd be supported not only in GNOME but in every GTK+ app. >>> After all, the ability to define initial window size can be quite >>> handy for any application. Specially in scripting situations. >>> >>> Maybe this should be proposed on gtk-devel? >> >> Apart from that it would be impossible to do in gtk_init because no >> windows have been created of course. :) > > Well I'd suppose it would be defined as "set this as default window > geometry for all normal toplevel windows when they are created" but > naturally any code that sets the geometry afterwards (to either > hard-coded or stored values) would override it...
To add to the confusion I should mention that document-based applications could store the geometry information in file's metadata (xattrs). -- Patryk Zawadzki PLD Linux Distribution _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
