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Re: Save and restore setup.exe window geometry attempt #2


On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:11:11PM -0400, Jonathon Merz wrote:
>>On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:23:36AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>> That doesn't sound right. ?That sounds like it means that you are
>>>>> ditching the current behavior which I, and others, obviously are
>>>>> satisfied with, in favor of forcing people to resize the chooser screen
>>>>> themselves.
>>>>
>>>>I thought that was the whole point, here. ?That the chooser would be
>>>>resizable to a specific size, and would *remember* that size for next
>>>>time. So, sure, you might have to resize the chooser once, when the new
>>>>setup is distributed. But after that, you wouldn't. ?You, I, and others
>>>>might be happy with the current maximize-always behavior, but I thought
>>>>there were at least some folks (with extremely large screens?) who
>>>>wanted the chooser a bit smaller. With resize-and-remember, we all win,
>>>>don't we?
>>>
>>> Boy this is tedious.
>>>
>>> No, it is not the same. ?We're talking about the default behavior. ?The
>>> default should be maximized. ?If that makes someone's eyes bleed then they
>>> can change it for the future.
>>As I understand things now:
>>- The chooser screen, but not the rest of setup, should maximized any
>>time it is run and finds no saved geometry, in particular, the first
>>time setup is run
>>
>>- When setup is run with a saved geometry, the saved geometry should be used.
>>
>>
>>If those are correct, the questions I see now are:
>>1. Should the saved geometry be used for all screens in setup, or only
>>for the chooser?
>
> When I was struggling with this, I thought it might be a good idea to
> make other windows bigger too but, since I don't recall anyone ever
> complaining that other windows which accepted input were too small, then
> I think it is probably acceptable to just apply the geometry to the
> chooser.
>
> But, that's just my opinion. ?My only criteria is that the initial
> screen for first-time users should be maximized so that they see
> everything rather than getting a partial view. ?If someone wants to
> change the default for the future that's fine.

Sounds good.  I'll work in that direction.  Not that anybody's waiting
on pins and needles for this, but it'll be early next week before I've
got a new patch since I'll be away for the weekend.

Jonathon


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