Re: RFC: `--geometry' command line option

From: J.M. Maurer <uwog_at_uwog.net>
Date: Tue Mar 03 2009 - 15:58:34 CET

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 14:58 +0100, Robert Staudinger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> what do you think about dropping the `--geometry' command line option
> from abiword?
>
> IMO nowadays there are better ways to do this (wnck) on platforms
> where launching from command line is not totally exotic (gtk).
>
> This would also remove the last remaining X Window System dependency
> (XParseGeometry) from the codebase. I have a patch to replace it by
> gtk_window_parse_geometry(), but is this command line arg really
> needed in the first place?

As long as the Geometry section in the Profile is still honored, I don't
mind deleting it. I doubt anyone actually uses it.

  Marc
Received on Tue Mar 3 15:58:46 2009

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