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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdebase/kwin/clients/laptop
From:       mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-03-26 4:01:11
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Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> 
> 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.

Sure, but screens are small and horizontal resolution is bigger then
vertical so I can use more space in that direction.

> 
> 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

The problem with that is outside the buttons are the frame, which has a
different function.

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