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

From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms_at_1407.org>
Date: Tue Mar 03 2009 - 22:10:21 CET

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 03:58:34PM +0100, J.M. Maurer wrote:
>
> 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.

I don't see any *advantage* in dropping it, or you guys simply mean
relaying --geometry to GTK+?

Rui

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