Force windows to maximize on open

[Colin Law]

On 3 November 2011 18:18, Bruce Pieterse <octoquadza at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu 03 Nov 2011 17:41:42 SAST, clanlaw wrote:
>>
>> On 3 November 2011 15:12, Douglas Saylor<absdoug at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> no - that takes a bug report so the people who maintain the stuff can be
>>>> made aware of the problem and fix it.
>>>
>>> (snip)
>>>
>>>> If it makes you feel better but a bug report might actually get it
>>>> fixed.
>>>>
>>>> Craig
>>>
>>> Craig, I love you buddy, but the reason I make screen-capture videos:
>>> these days, people don't READ what I actually write. I might not be
>>> the best writer, but I'm not the worst either. I *did* file a bug
>>> report ...that was my point.
>>>
>>> Had you read what I wrote OR watched the brief video clip, you'd have
>>> also seen *WHY* people don't bother filling out bug reports: the
>>> brain-damage signing-up for Launchpad! (Posted link to screen-capture
>>> video on Launchpad too).
>>
>> I don't think you did actually post the youtube link for the problem
>> signing up for launchpad.  You said you had but it did not seem to be
>> in the post.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
> Hi Douglas,
>
> I too have experienced this problem with both firefox and evolution (which
> was dropped in 11.10). I don't see why they can't push this upstream so that
> the window height is set to 500-550px by default for all applications that
> are not maximized. I have commented on the bug that Colin Law has provided
> previously.

I think a better solution is for Unity to size the dialog to the
screen in the same way that unity-2d does.

Colin