https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=91768

--- Comment #12 from Chuck Spalding <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Peter from comment #10)
> To store Window Application Data within the Document, does only make sense
> if the documents definition does define the information how to handle the
> Information in a standardized way.

I agree with that general statement. I am not familiar with the details of the
OpenDocument standard. However, I invite you to look at this webpage:
https://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/Spreadsheet_View_Data . I don't know its
"official" significance, but it appears to me to be under the umbrella of the
standards organization.

Fundamentally, I don't understand why OpenOffice *does* use some Window
Application Data that is stored within the document (e.g., author; document
properties [set in File > Properties...]; styles; spreadsheet selected cell,
grid on/off, row/column headers on/off, zoom; ...), but does *not* use other
data that is in the document (i.e., window position and size).

(As an aside, it seems odd that spreadsheet grid on/off [and other things] is
set in the *application* properties [i.e., on a Mac in OpenOffice >
Preferences...], but is applied on a per-document basis. [Don't get me wrong--I
agree with that attribute being applied on a per-document basis.])

> We have to think how to deal with optional information. ...

>From the site referenced above, and from my observance of *current* file
contents, I don't think it would be "optional information".

> ... I guess you do not want to store it every time you change the Windows
> setting. So there is a menu popping up. Which is annoying for users who do
> not care.

I don't understand why the user would be involved at all. I expect the
application to save the window state as it exists when the window is closed,
since that's how the user has configured the window. (That's how other
applications behave.)

> ... This issue has a vote of 2, which is not high rated. so a lot of people
> can be assumed will not want this feature.

I don't know the significance of votes in this Bugzilla system, but it was me
who gave the 2 votes, thinking that it might help raise the priority of the
issue.

Regarding how many people will want this feature, look at the multiple related
bug reports--that is, the same issue reported in various ways.

> Therefor we have to answer the question: How do we set the windows size
> within a document or configuration?

The answer seems clear to me: Use the existing attributes.

> Or is it okay for the community of AOO if the Document size changes at
> every save command?

The document size would not change if the user hadn't changed the window.
Currently, the size of (closed) document A is changed (the next time it's
opened) if document B has been saved in the meantime. How can *that* be
considered okay?

> Also depending on the solution, we need mockups, icon or other GUI features
> that get build in.

I still don't understand why you think this would be something that the user
would explicitly configure. I don't see any need for a change to the GUI.

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