On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Benjamin Humphrey <humphre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Of course the simple fix is to just add in a few pixels of virtual, > invisible grab space around the corner of the window.
That's going to mess with user's expectations when they click on a black space and start resizing a window instead. Can't we just use the existing window chrome to provide resize borders? This /is/ what pretty much every other window manager / operating system does on the planet. > > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin Humphrey <humphre...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Benjamin Humphrey > > Ubuntu Manual Team Lead > Dunedin, New Zealand > > http://www.ubuntu-manual.org > www.interesting.co.nz > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Sam Spilsbury _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp