GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 144021
remembering windows sizes: gnome should not consider maximized windows
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Description of Problem: If a program is closed when its windows is maximized, when running the program again, the size of the window is maximum but it is not maximized. This is not practic because, then, windows must be resized with the mouse. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Open a program 2. Maximize the windows 3. Close the program 4. Open the program again Actual Results: Its window fills the whole screen but it is not maximized. Expected Results: It would be much better if it remembered the non-maximized size, so it doesn't cope with the whole screen. How often does this happen? Additional Information: The process of maximizing-unmaximizing should work in the same way even if the program is stopped. I believe two solutions would be ok: 1. When opening the program again its window should have the size it had before maximizing it. 2. When opening the program again its window could be maximized but when clicking the button of maximize it should unmiximize. Going to the corner of the window to change its size it is not useful at all.
GNOME doesn't remember window sizes - this must be an issue with the application itself. Metacity normally does auto-maximize a window if the window is "maximized size" though.
This does not happen in my everyday life. I don't believe this is an unresolved problem.
GNOME should remember window sizes. Every application follows different policies and it becomes a problem.
There's another bug about remembering window sizes already open. However, right now GNOME doesn't remember them, so bugs in window size remembering are not GNOME bugs, they are bugs in whatever is doing the remembering.