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Message #07277
Re: What's up with all the non-resizable windows?
2011/11/19 staticd <staticd.growthecommons@xxxxxxxxx>
> Another problem that is brought about by non resizable windows is dealing
> with error messages: they get truncated and cant be read.(e.g. software
> center error messages)
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And that's the worst issue of all. It's windows-ism at its worst: fixed
dialogs that cannot display the contents they are supposed to. It's awful
and it's completely unecessary, both technically and conceptually.
(And I'm pretty sure GTK+2 dialogs were resizable, were they not?)
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