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Re: Save and restore setup.exe window geometry attempt #2
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 11:29:09 -0400
- Subject: Re: Save and restore setup.exe window geometry attempt #2
- References: <1242919416.32607.1316599693@webmail.messagingengine.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
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.
cgf