From kde-commits  Sun Mar 26 03:41:53 2000
From: Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna () total ! net>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 03:41:53 +0000
To: kde-commits
Subject: Re: kdebase/kwin/clients/laptop
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, CVS by mosfet wrote:

> 
> kdebase/kwin/clients/laptop laptopclient.cpp,1.1,1.2 laptopclient.h,1.1,1.2
> Author: mosfet
> CVSROOT: /home/kde
> Sat Mar 25 22:37:49 MET 2000
> Update of /home/kde/kdebase/kwin/clients/laptop
> In directory zeus:/tmp/cvs-serv14149
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	laptopclient.cpp laptopclient.h 
> Log Message:
> Trying to make the titlebar buttons easier to hit on laptops by increasing the
> width. The issue here is I want to make the buttons as wide as possible for
> laptop mice without having the titlebar be all buttons and no title ;-) My
> solution so far is making the common buttons bigger and the uncommon ones
> smaller. It's not consistent but let's me make the areas frequently hit 
> wide as hell, which is good for a laptop :) Close, iconify, and maximize are
> larger - sticky and help are smaller. 

If I'm not daring too much with these two suggestions ...

Do you have a laptop? It's almost never left or right targets that are
difficult to hit. It's upper and lower.

A technology Apple used to use (if I don't just dream right now) was the
non-visible enhanced targets. I.e., the hot widget gets an "escort", a
hidden widget a bit (or more) larger than the visible one. Not easy to
create, but really helpful for many places in KDE (like outmost pixel row
in kicker, links in a crammed-font HTML page.

Cristian