Am Mittwoch, 29. November 2006 11:40 schrieb Enrico Forestieri:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:50:51AM +0100, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> > The geometry option is a feature of the linux windows
> > manager/x-server(?), and is not availabale on Windows.
>
> Are you sure? The Qt3 frontend handles it pretty good on Windows, too.
>
> > Currently only the geometry option is passed with it's arguments to the
> > system, but Windows couldn't handle it:
> >
> > lyx_main.C
> >
> > if (support::compare(argv[i], "-geometry") == 0)
> > geometryOption_ = true;
> > ...
> > if (geometryOption_) {
> > width = 0;
> > height = 0;
> > }
> >
> >
> > I don't plan to emulate the geometry option on Windows, because
> > now the restoring of the windows size works fine.
>
> I am not sure it has to be emulated, unless something changed in this
> respect in Qt4. I badly miss this option, maybe because I am not a
> typical Windows user and expect that it works as it should. I use LyX
> through scripts for doing different jobs and in some cases I want that
> the LyX window has small dimensions. This was working before and if it
> doesn't work anymore, it is a regression, and a bad one from my point
> of view... I begin thinking that nuking the Qt3 frontend was not such
> a bright idea... Seems Qt4 has severe limitations in some area...
> I could continue ranting forever if I can't have back -geometry ;-)
OK, I will have a look at the qt3 sources.
Peter
