GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 339440
the chooser should remember the window attributes such as size
Last modified: 2007-01-25 19:53:21 UTC
Each time you open a file chooser, it is set to the center of the screen, with always the same dimensions. I would like either/or: a) remember the last used dimensions (prefered). This must be system-wide, and include the position of the panes also. b) the file chooser to remember if it was left maximized c) the size to automatically take 90% of the screen's available space, and if the screen is too cluttered, take about 80% of its space. This is less efficient than simply remembering the last used size. Now, why do users care? Because I hate resizing that window every time I have to deal with files. It's so annoying that I tend to avoid that file chooser and always use external programs such as nautilus+drag and dropping to do the dirty job. Another important factor is that you must consider those freaks with 45" quad-LCD screens who want to cry when that tiny window shows up on their 8192x6144 desktop...
I agree fully that we need a larger initial filechooser window or better yet, the ability to remeber the size or set the size at will (using gconf or a environment variable). The first thing after opening a file chooser to open a something is making it larger (mostly vertically). Same thing for the save mode, it would be nice to be able to remember (or be able to set as default) the expanded state of the directory chooser. For now, I would be thankful if someone could point me to the place in gtk'S source, where the default initial size is is set so I can recompile with a larger size
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153828 ***