Re: Easier setting of start up layout

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Peter Moulding wrote:
> Hello Dia developers. I started using 0.91 about 2.53 seconds ago. Any
> chance of a new feature?
> 
> I went through the preferences and started setting the screen layout.
> Pow! An idea occurred. What if I dragged the windows to the right place
> on the screen then I went in to preferences and clicked a button
> labelled [Start with current layout]? Sounds easier to me. Similar to
> setting a home page in a browser. Saves me counting dots on the screen.
> (Saves me learning how to count! :-)).
> 
> I searched the archive and did not find a similar suggestion.

You're talking about the placement and size of the windows?  I believe
there was a similar suggestion a while back, and the general consensus was
that that's the window managers job.  Of course, Win32 doesn't have a WM
that allows that, so the idea would be good for them.

We can also compare with Gimp, which remembers the placement of all the
dialogs.  I don't know how WM-friendly it is, though.

-Lars

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