Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like to have the wm act consistently. We do not let you move the window too > far off screen nor does maximization cause the window to exceed the screen > size. Why then should resizing be different?
It strikes me as a differen thing: I can not move a window further past the border of the screen, b/c my mouse can't go there[1]. If we allowed continuous workspaces (so that moving a the mouse to one border of the screen makes it switch to the bordering workspace (of exists)) we certainly would want to be able to keep moving the window. Maximization is different b/c it has a single goal: make the window fill the screen (+/- toolbar, slit whatever options you set). the 'maximum' in this action is (to me) the maximum viewable window, not the hard maximum that's possible. > There is also the questionable benefit of window information being > offscreen. Imagine a window without scrollbars showing information that exceeds the screen size. (Hey, I'm not saying I use this feature all the time ;-) > As to your comment that other wms behave differently I find that when I > mention this the return argument is "yeah, but I prefer how Blackbox acts" so > this time I find myself giving the same explanation. In general, I prefer a window manager to do "The Right Thing". Usually this boils down to consistency (as you pointed out) and the argument of least surprise. I really don't see why (regardless of time/effort issues) a user should not be able to resize a window to any size they like. What (if anything) does NETWM say abut resizing? -Jan [1] Interesting side-note on this: If you move a window out of the screen using bbkeys, then alt-tab away from it and then alt-tab back to it, it appears in the center of the screen. -- Ancient Principle of WYGIWYGAINGW: What You Get Is What You're Given, And It's No Good Whining. --Terry Pratchett et al. (The Science of Discworld) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
