160503 - Implement "Use window size as default" function

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 159815

(Camino Graveyard :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Ken W]

OmniWeb has a wonderful feature I would love to see in Chimera.  You can set a certain window as the default size, so even if you or something else resizes a Chimera window, any new windows opened are the size you have specified.

Thanks.

Comment 1

[Steve Smart]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159815 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v dup.

Comment 3

[Dan Winship]

This is not a dup of 159815. That bug is talking about default position, this
is about default size.

Basically the issue is, when a user types Command-N, what size do they want
the new window to be? Chimera assumes "the same size as the current frontmost
window" (or something like that). OmniWeb assumes "the same size the user has
always wanted new windows to be in the past". You can make an argument for
either way, but I agree with the reporter that the OW way seems to do the
right thing more often than the Chimera way.

Comment 4

[Steve Smart]

I just don't think that bug was explicit enough about exactly what the feature
does; both these bugs are about duplicating the functionality you get in OmniWeb
(A function that remembered the origin but not the size wouldn't make very much
sense). You could put a comment on that bug noting that both the size and
position need to be remembered if you think it should be clarified.

Comment 5

[Ken W]

The idea behind the request is this: Chimera windows seem to open in the size of
 the last closed window.  If I, or even worse, some web site, resized a browser
 window to something totally useless other than for the previous purpose, new 
Chimera windows will open in that size, making the user have to resize, sometimes 
often.  A default window size setting would make new Chimera windows open in the 
user specified size regardless of whatever size the last closed one was.