preference window gets smaller over time

[Jérôme Borme]

1. Launch Inkscape.
2. Click on the toolbar button to open general preferences
3. Close the window, either with the Close button (lower-right corner of window) or the small cross (top-left corner)
4. Repeat at step 2. See that the height of window has changed. You can also close Inkscape and inspect preferences.xml to see the new size.

See the line <group id="preferences" [...] h="372"

At every iteration, the preference window gets smaller. On my machine, I could check in ~/.inkscape/preferences.xml that it gets smaller 26px each time the window is closed. This would not be a big problem if the window could be resized by the user. At the moment my only option is to edit preferences and put back a more reasonable value from time to time.

There seems to be a minimum size at 138 px of height below which the size will not decrease.

Linux x86_64, gcc 4.3.2, svn snapshot r21089 (dated 7 Apr. 2009)
Window manager is fluxbox 1.0.0

[dopelover (dopelover)]

The same problem happens on Windows Vista running Inkscape 0.46+devel r20967, built Mar 23 2009.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Mac OS 10.5.6
XQuartz 2.3.2 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple31)
Inkscape 0.46+devel r21262, built Apr 30 2009

Preference window shrinks:

  width: 6 px each time
  height: 30 px each time the window is closed.

min sizes:

       w="300"
       h="100"

The preference window is resizable on OS X.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Mac OS X 10.5.7, XQuartz 2.3.3.2, Inkscape 0.46+devel r21420

absolute px values (delta, min, shift) depend on gtk settings (theme,
icon-size, font), maybe screen resolution (xdpyinfo, dpi)

shrinking and saved dialog state depend on 'Dialog behaviour' setting:

a) preference 'Windows > Dialog behavior' set to 'Dockable':

   preference dialog size shrinks
   page info (selected sub-pane) is kept between restarts

b) preference 'Windows > Dialog behavior' set to 'Floating':

   preference dialog size is constant and kept between restarts
   page info (selected sub-pane) is reset to "0" when loading

shifting/position is erratic (no reproducible pattern found)

°) preference dialog x,y position shifts up and left (i.e. shrinks),
   with varying step sizes until relative pos 0,22 (xwininfo)
   (22 px is the height of the osx menubar)

°) preference dialog y position shifts down (delta y = 22).
   often after maximising the window (with the window manager,
   not <F11>).

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

it appears that virtually all the dialog boxes are affected this way, if they are floating, and if they have been resized to be larger than the minimum size. I have tested the following dialogs to confirm that they are affected:
- Preferences
- Layers
- Fill and Stroke
- Object Properties
- Filter Editor

[su_v (suv-lp)]

> if they are floating

Floating (as per preferences) or undocked?

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

I think I meant undocked. Most of these dialogs were docked by default and I manually dragged them to undock them