-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dylan McCall wrote on 22/06/10 17:33: >... > MacOS has a similar situation to us, with very narrow window borders. > In its case, they don't even _try_ to offer resizing by the window > edge. (The idea being, I suppose, that any control less than five > pixels in any direction will be very difficult to reliably use). > Rendering that resizing situation less of an issue, MacOS has the very > unusual functionality for expanding windows, and pretty well every > window has a client-owned resizing grip in the bottom right. > > Gnome has a _similar_ solution in place. We don't have the cool > maximize behaviour (and it would probably anger a great number of > people if it was implemented),
I've previously suggested that applications for which this kind of content-aware resizing makes sense (e.g. Nautilus, GEdit, Chromium) could perform it when you double-click the resize grip. This would be consistent with spreadsheet applications, where double-clicking a column header edge resizes the column to suit its contents. > but any window that happens to have a > status bar will probably have a resize grip as well. Unfortunately, > this resize grip is not a widget you can just drop in easily; it's > fused to the status bar widget. (Further demonstrating that the darn > things have no objective and should stop being called status bars). >... Cody Russell <https://launchpad.net/~bratsche> has done some work on making it possible for GTK windows to have a corner resize grip without having a status bar. He's really busy with other stuff, but perhaps someone else familiar with GTK could take it off his hands and get it finished. - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkw8Jl8ACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecoCIACffrfJnLPIHthc+/kNHBEgyiO0 mI0AnitjR1PxkFkM484lpfO/zDG5NfF3 =V53B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
