remember position

[Conscious User]

any chance you could make it remember its position on the screen? i hate it popping up in random places :)

[Conscious User (conscioususer)]

This is not completely straightforward, as the default behavior is not "random" as you say, but an attempt from the window manager to not get in the way of already-opened apps. Lots of users *expect* that.

Plus, in some contexts like tiling window managers remembering position is a concept that does not even make sense.

I will look into this later, but I think this is not up for applications decide individually.

[exleper (exleper)]

many apps do, for example pidgin buddy list, liferea and so on

[Conscious User (conscioususer)]

And many apps don't. If you want to use this as an argument, please elaborate further.

I want to know *why* I am implementing something, not blindingly follow what others do.

[Conscious User (conscioususer)]

The consensus on this is less clear than I thought. I expected to find official GNOME or X guidelines but there is nothing.

Opinions on Twitter were somewhat divided, but leaning towards application responsibility. A good point that was made is that the window manager cannot know positions of different documents of a same application. This does not apply to Polly, but shows that the window manager cannot be expected to cover all cases.

On the other hand, there certainly are applications that I personally do *not* expect to remember position, like terminals and file managers.

At the end of the day, until managers evolve this seems to be app-by-app analysis. I guess I'll implement this for Polly.

[Stanley (3k-stanley)]

That's great news, that you decided to implement it. I see, that issue is marked as Low. Do you have any plan when you start to work on it?

Thanks.

[Conscious User (conscioususer)]

Please do not add comments just to ask for dates. It's done when it's done.