*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 124315 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124315
Also added to the GNOME Usability bugzilla, here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586857
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #586857
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586857
** Description changed:
When you close an application window, and then reopen it at a later
time, it does not restore to the previous location. This is the
expected behaviour for anybody who is used to using Windows. It has
been reported multiple times in the past, and is always marked WONTFIX
because everybody claims it is somebody else's problem. This is not
good enough.
This IS an issue, and somebody needs to step up for fixing it. On
Windows, all application windows, dialogs, etc will re-load in the same
position they were in last time you used them. This is predictable and
consistent - a basic UI principle. Our 'best fit' algorithms on Linux
don't come close to producing the same kind of usability.
I'd be very surprised if everybody who develops an application on
Windows writes a chunk of code to handle remembering their window
positions when they are closed and subsequently re-opened - it seems
obvious to an end-user that this is the kind of thing that should be
largely handled by a common piece of functionality resident in the
window manager or the desktop environment. Obviously these distinctions
are quite blurred on Windows, but the fact that we have better
separation of concerns does not mean all the developers involved should
be able to spend years passing the buck to some other team and marking
this bug as WONTFIX, and that is exactly what has been happening ever
since GNOME moved from Sawfish (which handled this 'correctly' from a
user perspective iirc) to Metacity (which doesn't, and neither does
Compiz).
To address the WM developers' complaints that this "isn't their
problem", whilst also addressing the absurdity of expecting every
application developer to address it individually (never going to
happen), I believe this should be probably be handled by an invisible
background application instead - that just sits there memorising window
positions and restoring them when appropriate.
- Please, somebody, write the damn thing and offer it up to the Ubuntu
+ Please, somebody, write this daemon and offer it up to the Ubuntu
project, because until you do, we're lagging behind on a very basic UI
feature.
I'm filing this bug as part of the 100 papercuts initiative - I believe
it's a perfect example of the sort of UI flakiness that long-term Linux
users have got used to, and they don't realise how much it dismays and
annoys newcomers.
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Application windows do not restore to last known position.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391533
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