hi; On 11 December 2011 15:56, Bjoern Schiessle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Therefore I think the problem has to be addressed on the desktop/window > manager level. Like an application window a dialog should be never > larger than the screen. If I think about it, maybe it even has to be > addressed on the toolkit level so that the dialog automatically add > scrollbars if the content didn't fit on the screen (similar to a text > view widget). this would absolutely suck for the user, who will have to deal with broken user interfaces - and for the toolkit maintainers, who now have to deal with changing the internals of applications in ways that will most likely break. adding a scrollable container is just papering around crap in applications; app developers should consider various resolutions, and bugs + patches should be filed against the offending applications. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
