From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:35:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: don't save the geometry to rc file on exit
Message-ID: <30e4a070802250535g72b59106yb1e4478eb9b9f47a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <18370.45020.940192.10482@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
> martin f krafft writes:
>
>  > May I suggest that such a patch actually disables writing of the
>  > config file, so that we won't get conflicts every time you sync
>  > config files via home-in-git?
>
>  Then various other bits of config won't be persistent, such as font
>  settings.  So I don't think that's a good idea.
>
>  It would be possible to make the config file be per-repository rather
>  than global, I guess, if that is something people want.  I personally
>  would find it annoying to have to change the font separately in each
>  repository, but tastes differ, I guess.
>
>  Paul.
>
Two things we could do:

1) Add a "save config now" button and a "save config on exit"
checkbox/option to the options dialog.
2) Perform a screen geometry check at load time to see if the corners
of the main window would be visible before applying the main window
geometry.

Mark