https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499630
--- Comment #4 from John <[email protected]> --- (In reply to cwo from comment #3) > (In reply to John from comment #2) > > If you just want to make sure that a particular application always starts > maximized, you can just use a window rule. Right-click the title bar, More > Actions > Configure Special Application Settings. Click Add Property, then > click the Add button (Plus symbol) for both "Maximized horizontally" and > "Maximized vertically". Apply, and it should always set that application to > be maximized when it starts. (If you're having trouble with this, feel free > to ask on discuss.kde.org, or ping me there under the same user name if you > don't get replies). That's great to have and I'm glad such things exists! But the problem is that even if I succeed doing that (as I haven't ever created a window rule), there's still the problem that Plasma still don't have a way to export and import all the changed settings and configuration and I have to do it again after I do a clean install / reinstall of the OS, for my 2 computers (desktop and laptop), for my parents computers and for 3 of my friends that I made Linux + Windows dual-boot setups. Because of this I rather prefer to have things fixed at the core, hence all the bug reports I'm creating for things that I consider to be problems for me and maybe they are problems for others too. BTW, I have tried what you said with the Help Center's window, but it didn't work initially. After adding both values a new section called Size and Position" appeared with the two values, but the "Apply initially" option had the default radio button set to "No". I switched both to "Yes" and now it works! This is create as a workaround and doing custom stuff for whatever reason, but for the case of just remembering the window state between windowed and maximized, I prefer that the core issue is fixed if possible. I don't know if I can keep up with manually creating these window rules for every computer that I manage and then do them again on clean installs / reinstalls / upgrades. I rather prefer to spend some time, probably more to test things and write good bug reports as this is something that I have to do once and then it will be fixed for the years to come and it doesn't matter how many computers I own or manage. > Remembering on the kwin side is probably hard to get right, as kwin does not > know which window is which (an application might have multiple windows that > look the same to kwin, same application and window title, but that are > different), and playing guessing games might lead to problems later. For KDE > applications please file a bug (thanks for the ones you already filed!), and > for older applications that are no longer being developed forcing a state > with window rules can be a workaround. I was just thinking that Kwin can see that I have pressed once the maximize button or dragged the window to the top edge since it is the once that maximized it (a reaction to my action) Doing something for my action (in this case maximizing the window) made me think that it cannot say anymore that it doesn't know what I did, what it did and to which window it did (as it maximized the one that I wanted to maximize, not another). But I understand if this is problematic and takes too much time to solve. I too wish that KDE developers and other contributors work on HDR support, Vulkan support and other more important things than this, since for these there's also the window rules backup fixing. Nate also pointed out to me that Kwin already have an possibility to open all windows as maximized so that's also something that I have to try. I'm already wondering if that's for new windows only (not having any previous state so nothing to remember) or will force also the ones that have a previous state to remember, but that's an option that I have to try in the future on a clean install to see how it really works. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
