On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Luke Morton
<luke.morton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ambiance has a 1px border on the left and right--I don't think that's
enough to negate the case for a resize grip. As to your example, I find
resizing the terminal to be particularly frustrating.
The tiny border is EXTREMELY annoying on my laptop in particular, as I lack the dexterity of a mouse when using the nub or trackpad (also holding down alt and the middle key while dragging is way out of the question on a laptop). It generally takes me about 3 or 4 seconds to find the draggable edge (and that's a lot of time compared to the split-second process it is for other decorators). Though it's nice to have flush themes, resizing really doesn't work with anything less than 3 pixels.
Would be that hard to modify the window manager to watch the outer 5 pixels regardless of decorator border? That would result in a considerably easier experience. If this were the case standard widgets could take priority if they're close to the edge (although a good gui designer shouldn't have anything too close to the edge anyway)