Re: [Om-synth] Patchage Restore Window (patchage-CVS-20050721)

[elgrande]

Okay... sending this agian...
My mailtool is somehow broken...
[OT: Can someone recommend a good textbased mailtools?]

There are windowmanagers that do remember destroyed windows (even from a 
former x-session).
e.g. fluxbox.
You can tell it explicitly to remember certain components of windows 
(e.g. actual workspace, position and dimension).
When you then start the application in the .xinitrc before you start 
fluxbox, fluxbox takes the window and restored the components you told 
it to save.
Awesome feature for audio processing, because you start you pc, type 
startx and everything is just as it was. (okay you have to restore the 
jack connection's for app's that did not do...)

Since I have a setup based on this, I would regard it as important to be 
able to tell an app to keep it's fingers out of the windowing system.

But I also do agree in remembering window positions being a nice app 
feature.

regards, tino


Dave Robillard wrote:

> Chris McCormick wrote:
>  
>
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 06:16:48PM +0200, Esben Stien wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > elgrande <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > I would definetely regard it as the window-manager's and not om's
> > > > task to remember the windows.
> > > >        
> > > No, this is completely and utterly wrong;). Sorry to say so, but it is.
> > >      
> > I'm afraid I disagree completely. It is most certainly the job of the
> > window manager (and not individual applications) to maintain the
> > positions and sizes of windows.
> >    
>
> When you "close" a window, it is destroyed.  It's no longer the window 
> manager's problem.  That's why the app has to handle it.
>
> Location and everything of a window is of course the WM's job while the 
> window is in existance (even if minimized or shaded or whatever), but 
> the WM can't keep track of the size and location of a window that 
> doesn't even exist!
>
> There's already code in both Om and Patchage to deal with this, it just 
> might not be working properly in all environments.
>
> -DR-
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