On Thursday, May 26, 2011 21:10:07 Urban Widmark wrote: > The kde (and qt, kuniqueapp) command line options are stripped when > using the KUniqueApplication class (saveAppArgs()/loadAppArgs()). I > believe a KApplication never has them removed. > > Some options are useful for an application to receive, even if it > already has an initial window. I am looking at this from wanting to be > able to do "konsole --geometry 80x60+0+0" and have it open a window of > that size and position. Classic X geometry is either pixels or > characters, and only the application itself can know what it wants (or > for konsole perhaps how to interpret a certain size, given the tabs > and menus it has). > > Examples of options that can be useful per-window are --title > --caption --fg --bg --fn. Perhaps I missed some. > > > Is the reason for stripping options that they should only affect the > initial instance of a KUniqueApplication? If so could it be an
yes; and your suggestion probably makes sense. one other little "gotcha" is that some unique apps do open a new window when launched a second time, just in the same process. it would be really nice if such applications could note that they do so and thus always leave the flags alone. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
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