*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 124315 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124315
No, it only works with a handful of apps, those that have worked around
the lack of appropriate behaviour by the window manager. There are even
inconsistencies inside some apps, for instance GIMP will place some
dialogs at 'last known' position and others at random positions,
demonstrating why a per-application solution is not the correct
approach.
Also, how can you mark a bug as invalid when you haven't even tested it
against the reported behaviour?! My report is correct. The fact that
you don't have the applications installed to test that doesn't make it
invalid, it means you didn't validate the bug report properly. The same
behaviour can be demonstrated with any application that hasn't worked
around this bug!
Applications that don't work, from the first three folders on my Applications
menu, skipping 'Games' as you seem to think they don't count just because you
don't have them installed:
* Character Map
* Disk Usage Analyser
* Manage Print Jobs
* Passwords and Encryption Keys
* Take Screenshot
* Terminal
* Text Editor
* Evolution
* Firefox
* gFTP
* Remote Desktop Viewer
Applications that do work, from the same menus:
* Calculator
* F-Spot
* OOorg Draw
* Pidgin
* GIMP (main windows, although some dialogues drift around)
* Xchat
As you can see, this is not an isolated problem, it's more than half the
applications that don't work. The ones that do work are generally the
mature applications that have been around so long and had so many user
complaints about this behaviour that they fix it themself, even though
it should be fixed higher up the chain. They're also largely the ones
with 'odd' UIs - GIMP, Pidgin, OOorg, none of these are particularly
'standard' applications, visually speaking. I guess their devs are more
willing and able to get involved in messy windowing code, whereas
someone working on a new GNOME application might not expect to have to
do that kind of thing just to get basic functionality like 'reappear at
some position and size as last time' working.
The Metacity devs are showing exactly the kind of attitude that hundred
papercuts is supposed to work around. And so are you. This bug is NOT
a duplicate, as it wasn't filed against Metacity, and it's not filed
against Compiz either, although they both have the same problem - it's a
usability bugfix apparently required by all the window managers/desktop
environments. Where should it be filed if not against 100 papercuts?
Do you care more about making Ubuntu better, or about closing bugs?
Because this one has not been fixed, by anyone, and it does need to be.
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Application windows do not restore to last known position.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391533
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