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Comment Re:Unwilling to (re)implement --geometry (Score 1) 818

The other thing I liked about shell scripts doing this was that it was easy to take them from one computer to another. Is there a simple way to exact a KDE configuration into something that can be applied to another "newly installed" computer with possibly a newer version of KDE? i.e., not just copying the old .kde directory over and hoping that everything is compatible?

Comment Re:Unwilling to (re)implement --geometry (Score 1) 818

And what I use(d) it for was placing several windows. KDE4 has the ability to save certain setups, but they are a pain to use and update (not stored in a place that is easy to edit, hard to persist over upgrades, etc).

Working on several different projects with differing window requirements (terminal and others) was easy as I had shell scripts that could startup each window (across multiple screens) in the proper directories, running certain programs, open edits, all with set window sizes and at the locations I wanted on the screens. And when I wanted to change a layout I could just go tweak the script.

And I had this across multiple X screens (which KDE4 did away with). I live with Twinview now for 2 monitors, but hard to go beyond that.

Comment Unwilling to (re)implement --geometry (Score 5, Interesting) 818

KDE would be more usable for us developers if the KDELibs crew would (re)implement the basic --geometry command line feature. Removed in KDE 4, available everywhere else. It has been listed as a bug since the release of KDE 4.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165355

Please vote for this and maybe the KDE developers will take notice.

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