On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 at 10:58:13 +0000, Rodolfo García Peñas (kix) wrote: > > Alwin <[email protected]> escribió: > > >Hi, > > > >Josip Deanovic schreef: > >>Hi! > >> > >>Did anybody else notice the malformed look of checkboxes in "Window > >>Attributes" window? > > > >Yes, but it's not malformed. The first (read-only) box indicates > >the window hint requested by the program. The second one is a > >tristate check box, that can be changed to override it. Some > >programs (GNOME/GTK?) might need it to run correctly under Window > >Maker. (See also the Help balloon, when hovering the first check > >box. > > > >It can also be used to remove the resize bar on some Window Maker > >panels, as they can't be resized currently. To turn the resize bar > >off in those panels by default, would look better imho: WPrefs > >panel, Color panel, and the panels for opening > >images/directories/programs. > > Hello, > > IMO, this new feature is terrible :-) > > I don't like it and is difficult to understand for an user. Is not > intutive. The checkboxes don't have title or something like that > show what they do. > > Really the user want to know the hint requested by the program? > > If the dialog.c/panels* needs handle titlebar, resizebar,... it > could be implemented in the window.c/wCreateInternalWindow function. > > IMO, this feature should be removed and find new ideas for the problems.
I agree. The current layout is confusing, looks bad, and has no counterpart in NEXTSTEP afaik. Furthermore, having the two types of checkboxes side by side looks redundant. Christophe, I guess this solution needs to be reverted. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
