On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Reed Hedges wrote: > Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 21:20:56 -0400 > From: Reed Hedges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Elijah Newren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Usability] Dialogs and Maximize button > > > One consideration is that it is occasionally nice to be able to resize a > dialog box in case the application screws up the layout of controls > inside it. >
> Also consider my (odd) case: I use devilspie to maximize every new > window. Normally dialogs are omited from this action but not all (not > sure exactly why). Some windows look like dialogs without technically being dialogs and setting all the standard window hints or following the standard API. There may be more to it than that though but it is one of the simplest reasons. -- Alan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
