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List:       kwin
Subject:    Re: [Kwin] [Patch] additional titlebar button
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2004-06-21 12:16:21
Message-ID: 200406211416.21207.l.lunak () suse ! cz
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On Monday 21 of June 2004 12:19, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> El 12:01, lunedì 21 giugno 2004, Lubos Lunak escribió:
> > On Saturday 19 of June 2004 22:32, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> > > Well, since a number of buttons has been added to the titlebar,
> > > I think this one should be added too, for completeness. I assigned to
> > > the button the letter 'R' for Resize.
> > >
> >  Can you please explain what exactly that button is supposed to do? I
> > somehow fail to see how a button called 'resize' could be useful.
>
> Indeed, the button is not *very* useful. I think it should be there
> for completeness. TWM, for example, has such a button.
>
> Only, I just thought: it has often been discussed on kde-usability (for
> example) that windows should have larger, square resize handles, like those
> present on other operating system.
> Well, this could be KDE answer to that: although it is positioned
> differently, it can be an easy target to hit. Can't it be a useful
> "accessibility" feature?
>
> It is currently bound to the "Resize" action of the titlebar menu,
> although it does not work exactly the way I was expecting (the pointer
> warps to the bottom-right corner of the window, I was thinking it should go
> to the nearest window corner, and resize from there.)
>
> What do you say?

 Hmm, I'm not very convinced, and I don't see TWM as competition :), but oh 
well. There are still enough unused letters, so I guess we can spend 'R' on 
this.

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