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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Several suggestions to make KDE desktop look/behave nicer
From:       Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach () wp ! pl>
Date:       2003-06-30 9:44:17
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:18:55PM -0400, Ivica Bukvic wrote:
> *Keramik window decorations are really cool. However, when the window is 
> maximized, not only is the curved stuff still apparent in both the top-left 
> and top-right corners, but furthermore the left and right edges of the window 
> (couple pixels-worth) are placed off-the-screen. Some other window 
> decorations suffer from this even more, such as Web (found in the default 
> install of MDK 9.1) where the close "x" button is almost at the border with 
> the edge of the screen. I have 3 suggestions for this:
> 1) make the Keramik lose its "rounded" top-left and top-right edges in order 
> to create a seamless maximized window
> 2) make sure that the left and right edges are not positioned off-the-screen.
> 3) Perhaps the extruded window title should be automatically minimized into 
> the titlebar when the window is maximized (otherwise there is an ugly effect 
> when the window is maximized)

Hmm. I don't know if I understand correctly but behaviour with borders
off-the-screen is a Good Thing (tm). It means elements are on the border
thus in the infinity (Fitts Law).

m.
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