Originally Posted by
Gertrude the Wombat
Erm ... why do you think this is Microsoft's fault?
Well, window presentation is the window manager's responsibility.
An application can start up how it likes.
Don't know a thing about Windows, but in the Linux (and more specifically, KDE) philosophy, the application may
request to start up how it likes, but it's up to the higher layers to decide whether to honour any of the application's requests.
It may or may not choose to take any notice of the user's wishes as to how it is to start up
Again, not in KDE, where the user can choose to override any aspect of window behaviour for a single window, window class, application, or the whole desktop. It is the Advanced -> Special Window Settings and Advanced -> Special Application Settings menus in the window's actions button.
If an application developer decides that he's going to ignore the user completely and always start up at the top left hand corner of the screen then that's what' it's going to do - this has been a bug registered against the Java RTE for years and they're not interested in fixing it
In KDE all it would take is six clicks to dissuade the application from doing that.
I'm not trying to sell you in on KDE (amazing as it is
), just pointing out that it's not quite correct to say that it is
hardly Microsoft's fault, it's not their software.
It's their window manager. It was their design decision not to let the user override the application's behaviour. Therefore, I disagree that it is not "Microsoft's fault", in a way.
Note: this is not meant to be gratuitous MS bashing, just discussing a technical point.