Re: Qt window placement

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Thursday, 03 April, 2014 22:00:37 Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2014, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> 
> > At some point between 4.6 and current CVS, the initial placement of
> > Qt plot windows has changed.
> >
> > It used to be that the Qt plot window would open nicely in some unoccupied
> > part of the screen, probably because that is how I set the window manager
> > policy.
> >
> > Now it always opens in the center of the screen, which is probably the
> > worst possible place.  Changing the window manager placement policy
> > has no effect.
> >
> > How can we restore the previous behaviour?
> 
> For the few months I've been running Arch linux, using whichever gnuplot 
> 4.6 variant was current in the Arch repositories (right now, 4.6.5). The 
> Qt terminal is apparently the default on Arch (maybe not unconditionally, 
> but seems to be the case if the Qt libraries are installed; I have Qt 
> 4.8.5).
> 
> On that basis I'm afraid I can't agree that the gnuplot 4.6 behavior is to 
> "open [Qt windows] nicely in some unoccupied part of the screen". On my 
> system the Qt gnuplot windows open partially off-screen: I have to move 
> them inboard to see the whole plot. I'm not sure whether opening in the 
> center of the screen would be better or worse!

Somewhat tangential since I'd still like to know what changed...

Mojca has requested, and I very much agree, that when you manually
adjust the plot window size it should be saved and reused when you next
open a plot window.  Alternatively there could be an explicit
"save current window geometry" in the tools widget.

I am told this is unreasonably hard in Qt, but even so that is what I would like
to have.

	Ethan