Ubuntu
metacity package

Resizing a window is difficult

Bug #58759 reported by Eric Feliksik
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Metacity
Invalid
Low
metacity (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
ubuntulooks (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: metacity

I find resizing a window in gnome, especially from the upper right corner, to be difficult.

The reason is that I try to do it - you guessed it - at the corner.
But in reality, you can practically only resize BELOW the corner. This has annoyed and confused me a lot, until I decided to research WHERE exactly you can resize and where you can't.

See the image explanation; in the green zone, you can currently resize. In the red zone, I expect to be able to resize, but I can't.

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Eric Feliksik (milouny) wrote :
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dorphichinfa (dorphichinfa-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Confirmed. (using dapper)

It seems the area above the corner actually belongs to the minimize/maximize/close buttons. The case is the same with the top left corner, where the area is occupied by the window icon.

The button's and icon's 'bounding box' (area that they occupy) needs to be flatter as to make room for the window resizing area above them.

See attachment. Green area allows window sizing. Red area does not.

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dorphichinfa (dorphichinfa-deactivatedaccount) wrote :
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Elijah (newren) wrote :

Almost certainly caused by http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97703; haven't seen an upstream bug about this. Should Thomas' changes only take effect for maximized windows?

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Dean Sas (dsas) wrote :

reproducable with 1:2.16.1-0ubuntu1

Changed in metacity:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Untriaged → Low
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Dean Sas (dsas) wrote :

I've tested this a bit more and it seems to be fine using the clearlooks theme
but the bug is there on others such as Silicon and Ubuntu's Human theme.

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Dean Sas (dsas) wrote :

Didn't finish my last comment (sorry for the noise), I assume that this is a theme specific thing.

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Changed in metacity:
status: Unknown → Rejected
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Havoc is of the same opinion: "This is a deliberate decision in some themes because using those buttons is *way* *way* more common than resizing up there."

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dorphichinfa (dorphichinfa-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I suppose it would also make sense for maximised windows when there isnt a top panel. Everyone likes top just shrow the cursor to the top-rightmost pixel and click to close the maximised window. That would be impossible if that pixel were occupied by a 'resize window' area.

In that case this wouldn't be a bug but more of a usability feature.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Closing the distribution task since we are not likely to make a distribution specific change for that. Feel free to argue upstream if you disagree

Changed in metacity:
status: Confirmed → Rejected
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Brian Derr (bderrly) wrote :

This is theme dependent and not a bug, it is was user interface decision that was made. Closing the bug for ubuntulooks.

Changed in ubuntulooks:
status: New → Invalid
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in metacity:
importance: Unknown → Low
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