On Apr 12, 2008, at 12:37 PM, stig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=24949
User: stig
Date: 2008/04/12 07:37 PM
Log:
Added an option to save column widths in the recent file.
Is there any reason for that to be a preference?
I.e., is there any reason why somebody would want that preference
turned off?
For that matter, is there any reason why "Save window size" is a
preference?
One *possible* reason is that you might switch between systems with
different-sized displays *and* might have a common home directory on
all those systems (e.g., a network home directory), and a window size
and column widths appropriate on one display might be too small or too
big for another display.
(I've seen similar problems with a certain file manager - whose name
begins with "F", as in "FTFF" :-) - and its display of the icons on my
desktop; logging into a machine with a smaller display than my default
display causes it to try to display the same set of items in the same
positions, and it ends up putting them in weird places; it then
remembers the weird places, so the next time I log in to my main
machine, the icons are all in the wrong places.)
The right answer for that might be to keep per-screen-size window size
and column width values, so that the values are saved along with the
screen height and width (in pixels), and the values corresponding to
the current screen height and width, if any, are retrieved.
