On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 00:30, Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@hashkedim.com> wrote:
Remembers window position
Not default, but...right click on the Dolphin window tile bar. Select Advanced > Special Window Settings > Size & Position. Place checks in the Position and Size check boxes, and set their option to Remember (ignore the numbers in the text boxes to the right). Click OK. Position Dolphin where you want it to open... close it and open it again... shazam, it remembers Window position.
The above seems to mean that one has to position the position of the Dolphin window (or any other window, presumably), and then lock it into that position for the future. This is not the OS/2 behavior; in OS/2 one has only to place a window in its desired position, period. There is not need to trickle down through a rather long menu tree, and manipulate check boxes to set a position to be remembered for each window
Instead of assuming... did you try it... I'm guessing no, you didn't. The option is NOT the default... so you change it if you want the old OS/2-like behavior. You do NOT have to manually set the position, nor are you locking it in... as I clearly stated, "ignore the numbers in the text boxes to the right" implying... for this particular setting, they are not important. If you follow those exact steps.. you know... try it yourself instead of assuming... you would discover that the option configures the Dolphin window to remember whatever location it was in when you last used it. If you move it to a new location while it's open and then close it... it'll remember it's last location. You do not have to set this option for each window... I gave the example for Dolphin specifically, where you set it once and it remains until you unset the option. If you want to apply it to all applications, you go to: Configure Desktop > Window Behavior > Window Rules > New > Size & Position and set the Size and Position to on (checkbox) and set the option to Remember (sound familiar?). Click OK and you'll be asked if you are sure you want to apply this to all applications. So... KDE4 is fully capable of this same behavior as described for OS/2.... you simply have to enable it... once... either per application or globally. It's not hard... it's documented (how do you think I discovered how to do it?)... and instead of assuming that KDE4 was broken according to a feature in a 20 year old GUI, I tried and discovered that one of the features that was being touted as missing was actually there... as are roughly 85 or 90% of the rest of the presumed missing features. Sure, some things aren't there... this is KDE4, not an operating system from 20 years ago. Things are bound to be different. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org