[Bug 230663] New: apps do not respect --geometry on command line

[benson.bear at gmail.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230663

           Summary: apps do not respect --geometry on command line
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: benson.bear at gmail.com


Version:            (using KDE 4.4.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

Assuming the --geometry option is supposed to work like the X option -geometry,
setting initial position and size of apps where at all possible, then this
option does not work on many if not most kde apps.

It works to some degree on some apps, and not at all on others.  

For one example, 

   okular --geometry 300x600+200+200

respects the size but ignores the location.  Strangely,

   okular --geometry 300x600-200-200 

seems to respect the location also (200 pixels from
lower right corner).  It respects the location if it is negative,
which means one can work-around the problem in this case.

But other apps do not support it even to this degree.  Konsole is one example,
as is Kdialog.  Kate and Kwrite, though, act the same as Okular, for example.

This may seem like a triviality, but the apps do say they support it, and those
who want to save locations of many sets of apps (for example, many pairs of pdf
files for side to side comparisons, which I really need to do), seem to need
something like this.

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