Bug#564541: evince-gtk: does not save window size on exit and restore on startup

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 11 janvier 2010 à 09:27 +0100, Josselin Mouette a écrit :
> Le samedi 09 janvier 2010 à 23:03 -0500, John Lindgren a écrit :
> > A nice feature to add to evince-gtk would be to save its window size
> > (and whether it's maximized) on exit and pop up at that size on startup.
> > Currently it always starts at about two thirds of my 14-inch laptop
> > panel; with the thumbnails pane, that leaves the page far too small for
> > reading.  For now I'm switching to the full Gnome version, since that
> > already has this feature, even running in XFCE.
> 
> One of the reasons for evince-gtk to exist is precisely to not have a
> dependency on GConf, which is used to store such information. You cannot
> have the features without what is implementing them…

Actually I was wrong, evince doesn’t use GConf to store the window
sizes. They are stored in ~/.gnome2/evince/ev-metadata.xml, and this
should be the case as well with evince-gtk.

Cheers,
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