2013/7/29 Sam Spilsbury <smspil...@gmail.com> > Please stop asking to revert the status of this bug. It is fine as is: > > 1. This bug was fixed in compiz and Unity in 11.04 (two years ago now). > The left, right and bottom window borders now have a ten-pixel each-way > grab area. >
This is plain false. Wanna come over my place to see it for yourself? > 2. A similar grab area was added to the top border in 13.04 > Again, this can be proved false on many computers. I can show you a few. > 3. If no such grab area exists In other words: such grab area might not exist, so how on Earth can you say this is fixed? > and you are running Unity 3D, you can configure the borders so that they > do exist: > 11.04: Open > /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml and edit the > <padding> tags under <frame_tyle> with the name "normal_focused" and > "normal_unfocused" and add left="left_padding" right="right_padding" > bottom="bottom_padding" > 11.10 and onwards: Install mutter (sudo apt-get install mutter) and > edit org.gnome.mutter 'draggable-border-width' in dconf-editor > What about 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04 users? Can't you see there are complaints from users of these versions as well? 5. This bug is only fixed in Unity 3D. Any similar issues with other > desktop environments (gnome-classic, xfce, kde) should be reported to the > relevant upstream. > This bug IS NOT FIXED. Just saying so won't magically change facts. And the facts show very clearly LOTS of people have a really hard time grabbing windows borders. Some people experience it at the top of the windows, some at the sides, some at the bottom... (and we're not even talking about the elusive target of Nautilus' sidebar resizing handle...). I'm no developer so I can't imagine how you guys go about this thing, but it behaving differently for different users on different computers should tell you something. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to light-themes in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160311 Title: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult Status in Ayatana Design: Fix Released Status in Decorator for compiz-fusion: New Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Fix Released Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in Unity: Fix Released Status in Unity 2D: Invalid Status in “light-themes” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: This bug is fixed in unity-3d since ubuntu 11.04. It still exists in unity-2d and will never be fixed as unity-2d is no longer supported since ubuntu 12.10 (see comment #343). ************* This should mostly be fixed for Natty and might get backported to earlier releases as well. For Precise (12.04) this is again broken for unity-2d (as of 17.7.2012 unity-2d 5.12.0-0ubuntu1.1). Note that if the window has a scrollbar, you can grab that to resize the window. If not, you are stuck with the 1px border. Workaround: NONE KNOWN (see comment 320)? ************* *************Blueprint for Natty, Ubuntu 11.04: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/packageselection- dx-n-resizing-windows Work items1 * Make sure the new resize grip fits in current applications; doesn't interfere with anything. We should make some noise about this during the Natty cycle so people keep their eyes open and file bugs. 2 * Invisible window resize area - around 3px invisible area to allow resize on all sides. ************* Working grip backported to gtk2 already available in ppa : https://launchpad.net/~bratsche/+archive/gtk ************* Workaround for Compiz/Unity: Alt+Middlemousebutton resizes a window most comfortably. Workaround: Edit /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/metacity-1/metacity- theme-1.xml. Set the following values in frame_geometry_normal as desired: <distance name="left_width" value="3"/> <distance name="right_width" value="3"/> <distance name="bottom_height" value="3"/> ************ Binary package hint: metacity - The issue has been an issue for users (especially of large) screens for several releases- Trackpad users seem to be particularly impacted by this- The issue appears to have been significantly aggravated in Lucid by changing the border width from 3 pixels to 1 pixel The window borders in metacity are far too thin to be used for comfortable window resizing, and resize handles are not available in all applications (or even most). In fact, of all the windows I have open right now, not a single one of them has a resize handle. The result is that I get a lot of "misses" when I try to drag a window border, which usually results in my clicking on the wrong window altogether. The best fix for this usability bug is to create an "invisible" region around each non-maximized window about 4px thick that can be used for resizing (in addition to the visible border). Or perhaps there should be a border thickness option on the System > Preferences > Windows dialog (although the default thickness should still be increased considerably). Ideally all windows would also have a resize handle but I realize that these have to be application controlled (at least that seems to be the position of the metacity team). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/160311/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp