Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

[Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Of course the simple fix is to just add in a few pixels of virtual,
> invisible grab space around the corner of the window.

That's going to mess with user's expectations when they click on a
black space and start resizing a window instead.

Can't we just use the existing window chrome to provide resize
borders? This /is/ what pretty much every other window manager /
operating system does on the planet.

>
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Meant to send this to everyone but ended up sending it to Alex only:
>> Alex,
>> Ha! The theme I use, and the new default themes, certainly make it very
>> hard to resize windows. It appears there is only 1px x 1px grab area in
>> Lucid. There's a bug report somewhere that I was reading a few weeks ago...
>>
>> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Gavin Langdon <puttabutta@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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)
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>> Benjamin Humphrey
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> Benjamin Humphrey
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