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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 14:43, Philipp Wendler <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Am 23.06.2010 09:20, schrieb Vishnoo:
>
>
>  I'v never found the need to resize firefox&  evolution [always
>> maximized] or the various prefs dialogue windows[which have the right
>> size].
>>
>
> Don't forget that there are users that do not always maximize their
> windows. This will be even more common in the future, because it doesn't
> make sense to maximize firefox etc. on a 24" screen. The only application I
> ever maximize on such a screen is Eclipse.


24" ? good point there!
on my 10" i maximize everything except for Contact List, which i expect to
be an indicator menu at some point, hopefully.


>
>
>  Rarely resize certain windows - eg: nautilus,xchat,liferea,terminal.
>> These remember the last size I had set them to and they open in the same
>> size[seems to be the case with almost every application in the default
>> install]. Which I rarely adjust more than once. The most common action I
>> do with them is maximize.
>>
>
> I often resize terminals, editors and evince and arrange them so that I can
> view all of them, for example when looking at a manual or a paper, doing
> something on the command line and writing some text about it.
>

would resizing in a grid not help with all this? It would be easier to snap
application windows to each other this way. It would also make resizing
faster in general as far as i can imagine.


> So window resizing is IMHO an important action[...]
>

+1