Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2011-01-23 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 19:21, Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Frederik Nnaji In bluetile (thanks OmegaYear), adjacent gridded windows share 1 border, so if you move it, you resize both windows at the same time. You mean like a tiling wm kind of

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-12-28 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
Hi Zekopeko, On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 17:52, zekopeko zekop...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Frederik Nnaji frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 17:18 +0100, zekopeko wrote: I suggest you look at Divvy[1]. Looks like a really nice way of

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-12-28 Thread zekopeko
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:46 PM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Zekopeko, On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 17:52, zekopeko zekop...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Frederik Nnaji frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 17:18 +0100,

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-12-28 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 19:34, zekopeko zekop...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:46 PM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Zekopeko, On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 17:52, zekopeko zekop...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Frederik Nnaji

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-12-27 Thread zekopeko
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:36 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: forgive me for sending 4 in a row on this thread.. here's a mockup of what i think, attached. it's actually a screenshot, just imagine the possibilities! the resize grab handle would have to be

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-12-27 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 17:18 +0100, zekopeko wrote: I suggest you look at Divvy[1]. Looks like a really nice way of marrying a tilling manager to a non-tilling manager. thanks! divvy is cool, we had that before in a months old Ayatana thread iirc, and i think i liked it already for its

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-12-26 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
Seasons Greetings, Sam ;) On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 19:21, Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com wrote: In bluetile (thanks OmegaYear), adjacent gridded windows share 1 border, so if you move it, you resize both windows at the same time. You mean like a tiling wm kind of thing? That would be

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-12-26 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
and perhaps how blender does it. On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 01:02, frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: Seasons Greetings, Sam ;) On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 19:21, Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com wrote: In bluetile (thanks OmegaYear), adjacent gridded windows share 1

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-12-25 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 4:43 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Remco, On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 13:50, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 07:16, cmaglothin cmaglot...@gmail.com wrote: I agree. The only reason I ever boot into Windows is that I

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-12-24 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
Hi Remco, On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 13:50, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 07:16, cmaglothin cmaglot...@gmail.com wrote: I agree. The only reason I ever boot into Windows is that I have to annotate movies for a class, and Snap makes it very easy to do with just two

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-14 Thread Remco
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 07:16, cmaglothin cmaglot...@gmail.com wrote: I agree. The only reason I ever boot into Windows is that I have to annotate movies for a class, and Snap makes it very easy to do with just two clicks. On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:34 PM, David Hamm davidth...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-13 Thread Christian Giordano
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: That was what twm did. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm#Using_twm The problem is that practically every program assumes that it's resized at a lower corner, not an upper corner. For example, if you enlarge a Web

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-13 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 01:29, Dylan McCall dylanmcc...@gmail.com wrote: I remain uneasy about having window controls in the client, but it's a definite step up from before. +1 now perhaps it makes sense to think about a resizing grid, which should be active by default. Resizing a window has

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-13 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 23:52, cmaglothin cmaglot...@gmail.com wrote: The way you say this brings to mind the Aero Snap feature of Windows 7. is it activated by default? ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to :

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-13 Thread cmaglothin
Snap is enabled by default, yes. On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:16 PM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 23:52, cmaglothin cmaglot...@gmail.com wrote: The way you say this brings to mind the Aero Snap feature of Windows 7. is it activated by

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-13 Thread David Hamm
in fact i'd say it almost a upgrade deciding factor for vista to 7 ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-13 Thread cmaglothin
I agree. The only reason I ever boot into Windows is that I have to annotate movies for a class, and Snap makes it very easy to do with just two clicks. On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:34 PM, David Hamm davidth...@gmail.com wrote: in fact i'd say it almost a upgrade deciding factor for vista to 7

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-12 Thread Jan Hopmans
On 9/10/2010 17:02, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: For months, Canonical's Cody Russell has been working in his spare time on a better fix, and yesterday his fix finally made it into GTK3. http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/log/?qt=grepq=resize+grip Every resizable GTK3 window will have a resize

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-09 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Remco wrote on 08/10/10 16:50: With the new theme, the resize border has been reduced to 1 pixel, making it annoyingly difficult to resize a window. Some solutions have been proposed, such as always requiring a status bar with a resize widget, or

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-09 Thread David Hamm
screenshot of it in action by chance? ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-09 Thread Dylan McCall
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 3:30 PM, David Hamm davidth...@gmail.com wrote: screenshot of it in action by chance? There are some screenshots on mclasen's blog: http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/2010/10/09/getting-a-grip/ I remain uneasy about having window controls in the client, but it's a

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-09 Thread David Hamm
does that also mean that the terminal won't show a scroll bar unless necessary? ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help :

[Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-08 Thread Remco
With the new theme, the resize border has been reduced to 1 pixel, making it annoyingly difficult to resize a window. Some solutions have been proposed, such as always requiring a status bar with a resize widget, or doing some magic with the borders to make them act like they are bigger than 1px.

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-08 Thread Krzysztof Klimonda
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 17:50 +0200, Remco wrote: With the new theme, the resize border has been reduced to 1 pixel, making it annoyingly difficult to resize a window. Some solutions have been proposed, such as always requiring a status bar with a resize widget, or doing some magic with the

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-08 Thread Dylan McCall
This is already the case with the border on the top in the Ambiance and Radiance themes. Unfortunately, Compiz, doesn't understand that bit of the window theme. If you run Metacity (disable “desktop effects”) you will be pleasantly surprised. This was also the case with the border on the bottom,

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-08 Thread Remco
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 19:24, Dylan McCall dylanmcc...@gmail.com wrote: This is already the case with the border on the top in the Ambiance and Radiance themes. Unfortunately, Compiz, doesn't understand that bit of the window theme. If you run Metacity (disable “desktop effects”) you will be