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On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> thanks everyone for the valuable input, yet another thread with useful ideas 
> and no distraction!
>
> It seems there are as many preferences as many users with this window geometry 
> thing, so I'm going to make it flexible/configurable with two booleans.
>

Meanwhile finished this feature. I decided to go for an even more flexible 
approach. There is a new node in the preferences tree for window geometry. 
There is a table with three lines:

  - save to the design file (to the .pcb)

  - save to the project file

  - save to the user config (which is usually ~/.pcb-rnd/pcb-conf.lht)

Each line has two active widgets: a button that does an immediate save and 
a checkbox. If the checkbox is checked, the save is done on every 
project save or exit.

This setup provides maximal flexibility, the user can use the buttons to 
save precious setup explicitly and leave the checkboxes unchecked. Or the 
user can check the 'save in user config' checkbox to get back (something 
very close to) the original pcb behavior.

Currently window sizes can be saved, but not window positions. In a later 
iteration I plan to support that too.

Regards,

Igor2