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 <puttabu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Luke Morton > <luke.mor...@internode.on.net>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) > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Benjamin Humphrey Ubuntu Manual Team Lead Dunedin, New Zealand http://www.ubuntu-manual.org www.interesting.co.nz
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