From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs geometry Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:24:40 +0300 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153851921 27412 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2006 18:25:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 25 20:25:19 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 1G5RaT-0006bK-Rw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:24:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5RaT-0004Uo-Az for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:24:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G5RaC-0004UP-6Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G5RaA-0004Tk-R7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:24:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5RaA-0004Tg-IY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:24:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G5RbX-0001Mt-2n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:26:03 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-194-199.inter.net.il [83.130.194.199]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id FJA41987 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:24:36 +0300 (IDT) 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:57630 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:41:16 -0700 > > Not one of the applications on Windows I know opens at (0,0). They > either let the window manager do the placement or open with the > geometry they had in their last session. That means opening at (0,0) > is rather weird an unnatural. > > I just checked several, and I guess you're right & I was wrong. In most > cases I saw, they seemed to open where they were last closed, which means > that wherever the user positioned them last is respected - that's certainly > better than random or wherever the WM thinks is good. We could add code to record the last position in the registry, but I'd postpone that to after the release. > Otherwise, if the default behavior is like IE's, that would be good, IMO: > 0,0, if no previous session, else same as last position (last session); > cascading right and alternately up and down. No, 0,0 is a bad choice for those who have the task bar there, we should not go back to it.