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Hi, One thing that has been annoying me since dirt was young is the lack of stickyness of pop up window size. For example, when I open Window --> Preferences it always comes up in a skinny little window. I resize it to be full screen width so I can see everything - but as soon as I close it and open it again, voila - the skinny little window again. Same thing with the other pop up windows like Show View. Is it possible that this feature already exists and I just can't find it? It sure would be nice if all windows had this capability - and thinking off the top of my head, performing an IoC from an app into a single class method would work, wouldn't it - but then again, there's the "how do we store and retrieve it every time". Of course, I haven't actually looked at the UI code, so I have no idea just how much work this would be - hm, it sounds like I'm volunteering doesn't it? I guess I also don't understand why this hasn't bothered anyone else? Whether we like it or not - visual appeal sells and people are much more willing to tolerate the bad part because of the looks. I know this is a low priority item, but getting rid of annoyances is a huge marketing tool - and I always try to remember that the UI is always the best place to do your marketing. Kevin
We would be happy to look at a submitted patch for this feature.
There has been a lot of work in this area in general. Many dialogs remember their previous size and location. For example, the Show View dialog does this now. If there are particular dialogs that still bother you besides preferences, please open separate bugs. Since this bug mentions preferences, I'll retarget this bug to that issue. The background info is this: When we did the work for remembering size/position, we didn't remember the pref dialog size, only its location. The reason was that the appropriate size for one page didn't necessarily make sense for another page. Today, if the user switches from a big page a small one, the page stays large. Fair enough. Now they close the dialog and reopen it. If we save the pref dialog's last size, the dialog will remain large because of the previously visited large page. It won't size to the correct size for the smaller page. If the user wants to do so, they have to resize it manually (and there is no way to restore to default size per bug 116906).
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
