https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499630
--- Comment #6 from cwo <cwo....@posteo.net> --- > But the problem is that even if I succeed doing that (as I haven't ever > created a window rule), there's still the problem that Plasma still don't > have a way to export and import all the changed settings and configuration > and I have to do it again after I do a clean install / reinstall of the OS, > for my 2 computers (desktop and laptop), for my parents computers and for 3 > of my friends that I made Linux + Windows dual-boot setups. This is a separate issue. And you can just save your configuration and copy it to a new install, the same way you would save your other files. I always do this if I decide to reinstall for some reason (which I usually don't need to honestly) And there are other ways to do such things if you need to do this frquently for some reason that would also apply to other settings that you want to have changed. But a bug report is not a good place to discuss this; such questions are better suited for discuss.kde.org or similar forums. > I was just thinking that Kwin can see that I have pressed once the maximize > button or dragged the window to the top edge since it is the once that > maximized it (a reaction to my action) Doing something for my action (in > this case maximizing the window) made me think that it cannot say anymore > that it doesn't know what I did, what it did and to which window it did (as > it maximized the one that I wanted to maximize, not another). But an application can open many windows. kwin can't necessarily identify when the user opens a window of the application again later which window it is. It's reasonable that a user might want to have some windows of an application maximized, and others not. For example, a user may have some Konsole windows that they want maximized, but others they would want to have half-maximized so that they can put two side-by-side. If Konsole handles remembering the position, this can work (for example, the user could use different sessions to tell Konsole which kind of window it should be). If kwin forces the size and position over what the application requests, it will not work, or at best kwin would need to guess based on some other criterion such as window title and this may not apply in all cases. That's why this is best left to the application. It would be better to fix the applications to work correctly (saving their own state), and maybe have a workaround for the few that cannot be changed (e.g. because they are no longer being developed) using window rules or some other mechanism, rather than breaking other use cases. If you just want all windows to start maximized, there are also options for that (including the setting Nate told you about or window rules that apply to every application window). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
