GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 111972
Dialogs don't retain window position (e.g., Levels)
Last modified: 2003-05-02 15:31:07 UTC
Every time I open a modal tool dialog (for example, Levels, Curves, Brightness/Contrast, etc.) the dialog appears centered over the image window. If I move the dialog, cancel out, and then open it again, it re-centers itself over the images window. It should retain the position I gave it last time. If I have moved the layers dialog over to the right side of the screen, then I want it to always come back there next time! Oddly, if I *resize* the layers dialog (which incidentally doesn't do anything useful: the interior tools don't expand to take advantage of the space) it retains the new size the next time around. So you are in fact reusing the window, you're just not hanging on to the user-specified position it already has.
The tool dialogs issue is known and also applies to the file dialogs, the "New Image" and other dialogs. I thought this has been reported before, but I can't find the bug, so I set this one to NEW. (It needs to be fixed by letting the GimpDialogFactory create these dialogs so they are session managed automatically). However layer dialog (dock) session management is supposed to work, it should open the dialogs you had at the same position & size as when you quit GIMP. (or I did not understand what you mean)
Sorry, everywhere I typed "layers" I really meant to type "levels". It actually doesn't matter to me whether the position of the levels dialog persists across sessions (though that would be fine); what makes me crazy is that it won't stay put within the current session.
Seems you reported the same issue before... (I have already fixed this in my tree, will check in later) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61091 ***