language selector must remember its window size

[Jeff Fortin Tam]

Open the language selector, resize the window, close it, and open it again. The dimensions are not saved.

[Gaëtan Petit (gaetanp)]

i think it is the same for most (al?) of the windows in the admin and preferencies panel (maybe in all gnome interface)

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

This is a per-application thing iirc. I'm tired of filing bugs for each and every application to tell you the truth. I have filed against gnome backgrounds, dictionary, icon chooser, whatever...

Out of my head right now, things that are missing size & position saving are:

gnome-keyboard-properties
gnome-sound-properties
gnome-keybinding-properties
gnome-sessions
gnome-theme-manager

Is there any way I could avoid spamming the bugzillas? I'm truly sick of applications not saving such an obvious setting (no offense intended). This could almost be applied systemwide.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This is a per-application thing. I guess the best course of action would be to add a property to the GtkWindow so that this can be solved on all windows in a uniform way. Otherwise each application has to be patched to save/restore it's state upon close/start.

Cheers,
 Michael

[Nabeelfa (nabeelfa-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I am facing this issue on Feisty too!!!!!!

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

Why do you consider this as a bug?

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

why, because it's friggin annoying to size it up all the time or scroll until your mouse gets blue!
the amount of visible/usable space in the language selector is ridiculous. 450 pixels high on a 1920x1200 desktop? Are you kidding? I know you want to cater to the 640x480 use case but hey...

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

just to phrase it a bit more clearly and less harshly: I believe that any gnome application that does not remember its size breaks the spatial metaphor and that is a bug.

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

So the goal of this bug should be to make the language selector bigger. I agree it's small.
If you want EVERY gnome application to remember its size, you should open another bug for that.

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

I believe we should try as hard as possible to guess the good window sizes first, but it's nice to remember window size and position, as well as accels.

It's still a very manual process sadly; see yelp for an example on loading the values from .gnome2/yelp:
    gchar* config_path = g_strconcat( g_get_home_dir(), YELP_CONFIG_PATH, NULL);

    if( !g_key_file_load_from_file (keyfile, config_path,
                            G_KEY_FILE_KEEP_COMMENTS | G_KEY_FILE_KEEP_TRANSLATIONS,
                            &config_error)) {
        g_warning ("Failed to load config file: %s\n", config_error->message);
        g_error_free (config_error);

        width = YELP_CONFIG_WIDTH_DEFAULT;
        height = YELP_CONFIG_HEIGHT_DEFAULT;
...

gedit does it differently, evince does it per document etc.

Another common thing to save/restore are accels; this is usually achieved (more easily) with gtk_accel_map_load and save.