Comment 57 for bug 253709

I don't have much to add to this discussion, but I thought I'd add my thoughts.

First its a relief that plasmoids can even be resized. I booted into Windows the other day and carelessly tried to resize a widget, forgetting that in Vista/7 they are fixed sizes. :-)

(In reply to comment #52)
> In our culture we arrange items from right to left then from up to down, like
> we read. Europeans arrange items from left to right, but still from up to down,
> like they read. Plasma seems to assume that the user will arrange items from
> down to up, as items can be placed along the bottom of the screen and then
> resized comfortably, yet cannot be arranged along the top of the screen and
> then sized comfortably. So far as I know, no human culture arranges from down
> to up.
>
That's another issue I have with Plasma, I'd prefer if it arranged items left to right then top to bottom, like the English language. Actually, I'd prefer that this be the default, with the option to change it, (depending on the language?) so if I want it to be like Windows (top to bottom then left to right) I can :P

But that should go in another issue I'd think.

>
> They are rectangular containers of information. The problem of how to
> intuitively resize rectangular containers was solved decades ago.

That's why I don't understand why the resistance to resizing them like windows, all rectangular containers that can be moved around should be moved and resized in similar if not identical ways.

>
> So the solution is to make resizing unintuitive? How about having distinct,
> huge grabhandles at all four corners when the user clicks the resize button.
> Don't let them resize from the edges, like windows, but only from the corners.
> It will be visually different from windows, yet intuitive.

I think this is the next best thing to having them be resized like windows. So I guess this would get my vote for best solution to the issue.