Re: [Ayatana] What's up with all the non-resizable windows?

[Christian Giordano <christian.giordano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Why? Why are they designed for a specific size, when that's
> against the Gnome HIG?

That isn't true either. The HIG says that toolboxes should be
resizable, that alerts shouldn't be, and that progress windows should
be in specific cases. It says nothing about the resizability of
settings or Preferences windows. And since the Gnome developers
believe that System Settings shouldn't contain third-party panels (a
misguided belief, but that's another story), the HIG doesn't contain
guidelines for designing panels at all.

In the System Settings design guidelines, Gnome basically refers to these panel as fix in size and states how big they should be in pixels: https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings

Cheers, chr