Comment 76 for bug 344522

I might be wrong, but although kde is supposed to be OS independent, it is mostly used in linux, that is, under (some variant of) X. The X api states:

"Although the layout of windows on a display is controlled by the window manager ... most X programs accept a command line argument of the form -geometry WIDTHxHEIGHT+XOFF+YOFF ... for specifying a preferred size and location for this application's main window."

As per `konsole --help-kde` for instance, kde indeed has a --geometry option. Unfortunately, that option is apparently ignored by most kde applications. This is odd: if a user bothers to set that option, it's because he wants it to be used, I am right?