From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs geometry Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:07:21 +0100 Message-ID: <44C69619.6060304@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153865301 7731 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2006 22:08:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:08:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 26 00:08:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5V4K-0001GN-Iq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:08:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5V4K-0000jI-39 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G5V4A-0000hX-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:07:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G5V48-0000go-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:07:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5V48-0000gl-DE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.86.207.50] (helo=exchange.integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G5V5X-00031N-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:09:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.0.0.32] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by exchange.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id NMA8197Z; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:59:14 +0100 Original-Received: from 83.67.23.108 ([83.67.23.108] helo=[10.0.0.32]) by ASSP-nospam; 25 Jul 2006 22:59:11 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 Thunderbird/1.5.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 Original-To: Drew Adams In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57639 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > The random-positioning behavior is bad, It would be if it really was random, but I very much doubt that Windows calls random() to calculate the default position for windows. More likely it is based on the positions of previous windows you have opened. IMHO there are many more important bugs that should be fixed before we spend more unproductive time arguing about whether this needs to be "fixed" or reverted before release.