On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Guilherme de S. Pastore <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 05:28:24PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> Why don't they have a maximize button? Manually maximizing a window >> (it is resizable) is tedious... > > From the chapter of the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines that Joss > pointed to in his reply, dialogs are only meant to "obtain additional > information from the user that is needed to carry out a particular > command or task", something for the user to "quickly understand what > information is required from them". Maximizing is hence deemed > incompatible with their purpose, inadequate or unnecessary. It's a > design choice with which the panel complies.
So you think it's better to let the user do tedious manual scrolling or resizing then to offer him a maximize button? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
