About window does not remember its last position

[bruno]

EDIT: The AboutSystem Window does not remember its last position and size!

[diver]

Why should it?

[bitigchi]

I guess every application should remember its last closed position. It's the requirement of being a spatial desktop system after all.

[humdinger]

Not sure it's a requirement for being spatial. In any case, I think the About window is opened quite infrequently, and other than with apps you actually do some kind of work with, it doesn't matter if it opens at the same position it did a week ago. I rather have oe less "_settings" file in ~/config/settings...

[bruno]

It is annoying to have the window open in the middle of the desktop! On most upper top I would prefer it! Otherwise to have tabs on the windows makes no sense! same to the size of the window! At least there is now the about window replicant which makes it possible to resize and move! If all windows would be able to save its position one can easily arrange the windows on the desktop and make use of the tabs Haiku windows have!

[jscipione]

I apologize if I accidentally broke this feature while adding the replicant… but I don’t think I did. I would be ok with AboutSystem remembering its size and position on screen with the condition that it must also be able to detect that the window position is off-screen and reposition itself back on screen for instance because the user reduced their screen resolution between launches.

[bruno]

You did not broke this feature, because it was never there!

The replicant is great idea and works nice on 64bit, only it needs to be update the hrev. automatically which does not happen now.

On 32bit the window will grow with every second, maybe some kind of <br>? No idea.

With the replicant I do not have to open the AboutSystem every time I need to check my hrev. version. And yes it is AboutSystem not AboutWindow, sorry!