Hy! I'm a little bit afraid of a larger resize area.. If I click 10px far from a window, I probably want to raise the window below. 5-6px is ok, but more is risky, especially because that area is invisible.
Eisenberger Tamás <ta...@eisenberger.hu> On 12/21/2011 03:56 PM, The Fiddler wrote: > 2011/12/21 John Lea<160...@bugs.launchpad.net> > >> @stapostol; thanks for your response, I've marked the bug as also >> affects unity2d. Re. the sizing of the dragable area, in WindowsXP the >> dragable area is 5px (but it may well be larger in Windows 7). So yes >> the size could be increased, but 5px also seems workable. > > > Indeed, WinXP had 5px draggable areas - but WinXP is 10 years old now and > it might not be the most suitable point of reference for modern design > topics. The draggable area was increased in Vista (same as Win7) and I > think I recall a msdn blog mentioning this was based on usability tests > (but it's been half a decade since then and my google-fu is letting me > down, so don't quote me on that). > > In any case, the drag area is invisible in Unity, so a potential size > increase should be a relatively safe change. > > >> For those who >> need * significantly* larger grabable areas for accessibility reasons, >> another options is to use the love handles with a key combination, see >> http://linux-software-news-tutorials.blogspot.com/2011/06/activate- >> fantastic-grab-handles-in.html for details. >> > > These are indeed fantastic, maybe they merit more attention than currently > given. (I love them on my laptop, but I cannot find a way to use them on my > desktop). > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160311 Title: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/160311/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
