Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> writes: > On 2011-10-06 21:40:04 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: >> I guess that in the mind of the GnuCash developers this is a feature and >> not a bug, so it is unlikely that in the future GnuCash will adopt the >> behavior that you would like to see. > > It may be a feature, but currently, it's broken in two ways if GnuCash > wants to override the manual placement. First, it should choose a > default position that is not partly off screen!
My understanding is that the default position is middle-of-the-screen at the first run of GnuCash, and that if you manually move the window then the new position is stored in GConf and restored at next launch. So my guess is that you moved it partly off screen some time ago and that GnuCash remembers this position. To confirm this, try to delete the GConf key /apps/gnucash/dialogs/tip_of_the_day/window_position using gconf-editor, and check that the default position chosen by GnuCash at next launch is indeed middle-of-the-screen. > Second, it should > disable the manual placement (like what is done for its main window). My guess is that GnuCash developers won't accept to change the current default behavior. However, maybe they would accept to make this configurable and have the behavior that you want as an configurable alternative. Tell me if you want to turn this bug report into a wishlist item for this. Best, -- Sébastien Villemot Researcher in Economics at CEPREMAP & Debian Maintainer http://www.dynare.org/sebastien Phone: +33-1-40-77-49-90 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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