Ouaz wrote:When starting a new game with a clean config file (i.e. not modified by the user, as it is created when lauching FO for the first time), the overall display is weird (all in 4/3 style, even after maximizing the window)
Basically what Andrew already stated.
What you see is a consequence of the remembering window positions feature mel implemented. The problem now is that the default sizes/positions of all these windows are determined and saved when FO launches (and the config file has been deleted, otherwise it of course pulls the sizes/positions from there), before you can resize the app or go fullscreen. Requiring you to reset windows properties to default in the options dialog.
or the user has to activate "Reset windows properties to default" in the options (in this case, all panels are resized to fill the whole screen, as it was automatically done in the previous version just by maximizing the main FO window, without sneaking in the options).
On OSX that never worked this way. You always had to quit and restart after you resized the app or went into fullscreen. Now you you have to restart
and go to the options dialog to do the reset. But you've to do that only once, after that it remembers the layout now, and that's really a
huge improvement, well worth that inconvenience.
The game now remembering each window/panel position/size is a great addition. I just wish it is possible to reset properties easily and quickly with an hotkey.
Actually, mel has already implemented something to address this issue and
made the patch available as PR, she just hasn't been able to do it in time for the release branch. The problem is, this isn't some simple and small fix, it's quite a huge patch, not something you normally consider cherry picking into a release branch.
However, considering it took less than a day for the first complaints about that issue to turn up, I seriously propose for us to consider doing that in this case (that is, cherry picking that thing into the release branch). Geoff, Dilvish?
