Re: [e-users] Position bug?

[David S. <on...@gm...>]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 06:25:21 +0200 Anders Troback
<enl...@tr...> wrote:

> I tell a program to remember it's virtual desktop and position.
> When I start the program from an other desktop or from startup/.order
> the program starts on the desired desktop but the position are wrong.
> It always starts in the upper left corner!
>=20
> And now the program has a new position in memory and will start in the
> corner every time until I move it to a new position!

Further to that, if you are on the virtual desktop that it is
remembered as being on, then you get you remembered settings for that
window.  Not all windows get moved to their remembered virtual desktop
either, but again, if you are on the correct desktop, then the settings
kick in.  It's not just the position that is wrong either.

I think we really need an advanced dialog that shows all the remembered
settings for all the windows it has remembered, like E16 has (or had,
it's been a while since I used E16).  Then at least us developers have
some idea what is really going on and can help sort out the "that app
isn't easily tracked" from the "E is buggy" issues.

I know it's a hard job for E to track windows coz not all apps
cooperate.  Its a hard job for users to know wtf is going wrong with
remember settings when there are no tools to help find out whet E is
trying to do and what the apps are doing to stuff E up.  raster, I
think you mentioned to me in the past that E tracks changes to things
like window class and title, this advanced dialog should show all
information that E is using.  In combination with the windows
properties dialog, we at least will have some hope of figuring out what
is going on.

At the moment its like shooting in the dark everytime the remember
behaviour changes and our windows don't remember properly.  Wiping the
config and trying random settings again is no fun.