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[Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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