Save/restore calculator window position

[macmpi]

Would be nice to have the window position saved/restored, instead of always coming up in the center of the screen.
Maybe that information can be stored into individual .dat files or something?

[mike632t]

Saving it in the .dat file would be a breaking change so I would not want to save it there but the window position (top left corner) is something that could be saved in a common x11-calc.conf or x11-calc.xml file.

Just letting the window manager has some advantages though as it also avoids having to worry about the window being placed off screen if the display resolution or number of screens change...

I did try to implement this a few years ago but what ever I tried the window would always be created in the same place (and moving it afterwards is a bit rubbish).

[macmpi]

Position may be calculator-dependent, like in real life (you may have a 34c on one spot on your desk, and a 11c on another spot), and they do not have all same form-factor: so that would probably be a per-device save.
Not critical though, but thought it could be of interest form some, if not too complex.

[mike632t]

I don't think there is any reason why x11-calc.conf shouldn't be used to store per model settings, though that won't be simple (most platforms I'm targeting don't have things like XML libraries so I'd have to have to write any parser from scratch).

[mike632t]

I'm working on passing the windows geometry from the command line, the window position wouldn't be saved each time the application was closed but you could change it (though this does depend on the window manager honouring the request)