[kontact] [Bug 379662] New: Kontact 5.5.0 does not respect KWin window placement

[Till Schäfer]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379662

            Bug ID: 379662
           Summary: Kontact 5.5.0 does not respect KWin window placement
           Product: kontact
           Version: GIT (master)
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: till2.schaefer at uni-dortmund.de
  Target Milestone: ---

Kontact seems to do some magic regarding his initial window placement.
Typically KWin remembers the last size and position of a window and restores
it, when it is opened a second time. This is not the case for kontact.
Furthermore, windows rules that are applied initially for the size or position
of Kontact do not have any effect (using rule mode force does have).

Thus, I guess Kontact does some special handling about the size and position of
the window and does some magic about its placement on its own (and bypass KWin
rules by doing so). 

This is also problematic if one is working with dual monitor setup as Kontact
is always started on the left screen ---regardless of the primary screen
setting or the active screen---. If the left screen then has some horizontal
offset, the position of Kontact may be even outside of the visible area!
Example: I have to monitors and can only move Kontact to the visible area by
using a shortcut. It is always started on screen HDMI1.  As you can see from
the screen configuration below HDMI1 has an offset of 416 pixels, which is not
respected by the Kontact window placement.
Screens: 
- HDMI1 connected 1280x1024+0+416 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
380mm x 300mm 
- DP2 connected primary 2560x1440+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
axis) 600mm x 340mm


Proposal: Do not set the size and position of Kontact after initialization.
This breaks the placement rules of KWin.

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