Hi again,
On 05/10/2014 11:30 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
On 05/10/2014 10:49 AM, brendanperrine wrote:
I wonder if there could be a hard workaround using the openbox per
application settings to change the suggested size for the application
to make it fit.
Brendanperrine:
If there is such a thing, I can't think of any way it would be
communicated to the application, and if it were, making the screen
dimensions smaller than what is required to hold all of the components
could also have bad consequences.
When using a layout manager (as most applications probably do),
individual panes/sub-panes of a window are populated with their
components until there is no more room. When the available space is
exhausted, the remaining components are still linked to their panes,
but they are not visible (and therefore can't be used). If you resize
the window to make it larger, such 'invisible' components become
visible again.
Since "OK" buttons tend to be at the bottom of a window, and to the
right, if there isn't enough space for one of the buttons, the "OK"
button could very well be the one that becomes invisible, so you still
have the problem.
This is what I'm trying to explain, too :)
By sticking to the minimum screen dimensions, at least you can
Alt-Click-Drag the window to expose the needed controls (buttons).
Not really. This is true ONLY if that window allows you to do that. Most
of the painful cases where you can't do anything but to hit 'Enter' key
blindly assuming that would mean 'Ok' or press 'Esc' or just close the
window.
Either way, this is 100% not acceptable for new users.
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