Re: [Gaim-devel] Some patches (docklet tweaks, session management)

[Robert M. <rob...@de...>]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:56:36AM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote:
> might i add "support for saving window state". that is posistion,
> whether or not it is shown, minimized, etc.

Ha. Well, if you use the tray icon [*] and enable the option, the buddy
list currently tries to save and restore its posisition, with
*exceedingly* variable results depending on how broken your WM is. I'm
not going to enter into a loosing battle trying to store things about
windows which might not be there (conversation windows, buddy list (what
if signon fails?), error dialogs, etc), and open up the way for
countless bug reports about how people's buggy WMs handle the ICCM
standard from one week to the next.

Besides, I *think* the session manager is supposed to restore the window
configuration of correctly role-hinted windows, and we're setting all
the role hints on our windows now. Failing that you can get your WM to
do it.

> im running gnome-session-manager, and it works fine.

Cool, thanks for the feedback. The patch got merged yesterday. Woohoo!
=)

> --
> gram

Regards,
Rob

[*]: Although this distinction is no longer strictly necessary. The
position saving and restoring code had to be implemented in Gaim and not
in the plugin, so if people want there's no reason the blist position
save/restore can't be made available to everyone. It works reasonably
well currently. Let me know if I should bother.