Comment 17 for bug 710356

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Chase Douglas
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> The patch seems to require bringing the cursor to exactly the very last
> pixel row or column along the edge of the screen. This will be very hard
> to do properly with a touchscreen. If there's a bezel around the screen,
> you won't be able to get to the last pixel. If there isn't a bezel, you
> will probably overshoot and end with a touch up event instead of futzing
> along the edge of the screen.
>

Indeed. This fix is for desktops.

> Instead, could we do some simple snap to the edge of the screen logic?
> If it gets within 5 px it snaps? Who would really be upset that they
> can't set their window to exactly 3 px from an edge :).

I think with unity touch we'll have another plugin which controls
resize snapping

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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/710356
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> Title:
>  Resizing with external padding/grab area prevents reaching edge of
>  screen
>
> Status in Unity:
>  Triaged
> Status in “light-themes” package in Ubuntu:
>  Incomplete
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>  Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>  With the new external padding/resize drag area introduced in light-
>  themes=0.1.8.5 to help with LP: #160311 it is not possible to resize a
>  window exactly against the boundaries of the edge of the screen.
>
>  There are two main parts to this.
>
>    (a) The extent of the shadowing is used as the window outside.  When released, the window ends up being smaller.
>    (b) When click is initiated N pixels outside the window border, the pointer will reach the edge of the screen N pixels too soon; prevent resizing exactly against the edge.
>
>  Solutions:
>
>    (1) The shadow should not be counted as the size of the window
>    (2) If the pointer is N pixels outside of the window border, the pointer must be allowed to overshoot N pixels past the edge of the screen while resizing.
>
>  For the latter, one pixel of border must remain grabable so that the
>  window can be reduced from a semi-maximised state again.
>
>  S
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