Open in New Window

[David Faure]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, George Staikos wrote:

> On Tuesday September 24 2002 06:11, David Faure wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, George Staikos wrote:
> > >    Sometime this summer the behaviour of Open in New Window in konqi has
> > > changed.  It used to open the new window with the profile settings (for
> > > size, for instance).  It no longer does that.  It now opens in a rather
> > > small window which has to be resized manually.  Any ideas how this
> > > happened and where the right fix is?
> >
> > This change was intentionnal, for the file management mode (people with
> > "one window per dir" (i.e. the open-new-window-when-clicking-a-dir option)
> > don't want a sidebar in each window.
> >
> > However I can see that people don't like it for Web Browsing, and I
> > understand that ;)
> > But this isn't very easy to solve... Konqueror doesn't only have two
> > modes, filemanagement and webbrowsing..... Well, we could do something
> > like if (isLocalFile) createSimpleWindow else createWindowFromProfile...
> >
> > Would that be ok?
>
>   Well this thread has gone quite far already, but basically it looks really
> silly and is quite annoying to have web pages open up in such tiny windows in
> 2560x1024, especially given that the original window was so large in
> comparison.  The ideal solution is to open the new window in the same size as
> the previous window at least.  I suspect that may not be so easy to implement
> though... or is it?  I forget how that code works now.

Size isn't all. This is about using the profile or not (since the size is
part of the profile), so it also means getting a sidebar or not (assuming
you saved it in your webbrowsing profile), etc.

David.