Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2015-09-22 Thread vedavata
22/09/2015 17:21 "madbiologist" <160...@bugs.launchpad.net> : > > JohnWashington - This bug is about the default resize grab handle at > window borders being too small (1 pixel, or 4 pixels by some accounts) > to be easily usable. This has been fixed with the implementation of a > larger default

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-07-29 Thread Aleve Sicofante
and onwards means 12.04, 12.10, 13.04 and 13.10. My fault. You're right. Aleve - Which Ubuntu release and variety (Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Lubuntu/GNOMEbuntu) are you using? I'm wondering if your implementation is not using gtk-window-decorator. Plain mainstream official Ubuntu 13.04.

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-07-29 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Just one more question: why should I have to install mutter on plain Unity Ubuntu which doesn't use it at all? Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz) wrote: 11.10 and onwards: Install mutter (sudo apt-get install mutter) and edit org.gnome.mutter 'draggable-border-width' in dconf-editor -- You

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-07-28 Thread Aleve Sicofante
And who are those Masters of the Universe who can revert the fix released status? 2013/7/29 Ben Shadwick benshadw...@gmail.com This bug is going to be ignored unless you can get someone to revert the fix released status. I've contacted some of the people who set that status on this bug, and I

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-07-28 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/7/29 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com Please stop asking to revert the status of this bug. It is fine as is: 1. This bug was fixed in compiz and Unity in 11.04 (two years ago now). The left, right and bottom window borders now have a ten-pixel each-way grab area. This is plain

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/31 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:08 AM, OpenLaptop i...@openlaptop.nl wrote: Funny to see this bug is still not fixed sinds 2007 (6 YEARS AGO!!!) Hi. 1. It is fixed in Unity-3D, which has been the default since 12.10 No it's not. I'm using Unity-3D,

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On 31/01/2013 8:51 AM, Aleve Sicofante asicofa...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/31 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:08 AM, OpenLaptop i...@openlaptop.nl wrote: Funny to see this bug is still not fixed sinds 2007 (6 YEARS AGO!!!) Hi. 1. It is fixed in Unity-3D,

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/31 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com On 31/01/2013 8:51 AM, Aleve Sicofante asicofa...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/31 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:08 AM, OpenLaptop i...@openlaptop.nl wrote: Funny to see this bug is still not fixed sinds 2007 (6

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Andrea Corbellini
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Aleve Sicofante asicofa...@gmail.com wrote: That's why we call it a bug: probably you see the code being correct, but since the behavior isn't, there's something going on and it must be fixed. The grab area in the titlebar has nothing to do with the resizing

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/31 Andrea Corbellini corbellini.and...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Aleve Sicofante asicofa...@gmail.com wrote: It does not make any sense to continue a discussion on an old bug report that is about a totally different issue. Excuse me? The title and description of

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/31 Andrea Corbellini corbellini.and...@gmail.com: Dear Aleve, Please, do not modify this old bug. You are wasting contributors' time. As John Lea has already pointed out, the issue you are describing has already been reported as bug #717444. The reason why this bug should remain

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:32 PM, MC Return 160...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Sam, I'm running Emerald on Raring, so maybe that is why - but here grabbing window borders to initiate a resize is still very fuzzy... We maybe should retest and revisit this issue for 13.04 ? The invisible border

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Dan Halbert halb...@halwitz.org wrote: To Andrea, Sam, and other developers: The title of this bug is broad and describes a problem encountered in multiple window managers. That is what draws people to this bug. I would suggest that you edit the title and

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:36 PM, madbiologist 160...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Aleve - I think what Andrea was trying to say is what John Lea subsequently said - the specific bug for the window title bar/top border resizing issue is bug #717444. However that does ignore your first paragraph

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Aleve Sicofante asicofa...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/31 Andrea Corbellini corbellini.and...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Aleve Sicofante asicofa...@gmail.com wrote: It does not make any sense to continue a discussion on an old bug report that is

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/31 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com Aleve, if you are still having problems resizing windows you can bump up the padding around the window. If I remember correctly its in the key org.gnome.mutter:draggable-border-width There's no such thing in Unity. Mutter is used in Gnome Shell...

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:20 AM, Aleve Sicofante asicofa...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/31 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com Aleve, if you are still having problems resizing windows you can bump up the padding around the window. If I remember correctly its in the key

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/2/1 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com There's no such thing in Unity. Mutter is used in Gnome Shell... gtk-window-decorator integrates with the mutter keys. Lovely, but there's stil no org.gnome.mutter:draggable- border-width key in my Unity-only installation's dconf. Actually,

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Aleve Sicofante asicofa...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/2/1 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com There's no such thing in Unity. Mutter is used in Gnome Shell... gtk-window-decorator integrates with the mutter keys. Lovely, but there's stil no

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/2/1 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com Ah, I believe I made it so that if mutter wasn't installed, it just uses the default value of 10px, as there was very little usecase for making it configurable. If you want to adjust it, you'll have to install mutter, and adjusting that setting

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-30 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:08 AM, OpenLaptop i...@openlaptop.nl wrote: Funny to see this bug is still not fixed sinds 2007 (6 YEARS AGO!!!) Hi. 1. It is fixed in Unity-3D, which has been the default since 12.10 2. It isn't worth fixing in Unity-2D, since it would require extensive patching to

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-30 Thread Sam Spilsbury
Hi. On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:21 PM, latimerio 160...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: That said I want to resize my windows at ANY border not just in the corners or from the title bar. You already can. There's a small amount of invisible padding on every side of the window in Unity3D. This has

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-04 Thread Sam Spilsbury
Not likely. Adding the invisible window borders to metacity's non-composited mode is likely a nontrivial affair. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:59 PM, axel 160...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Unity-2D is not supported in never versions and does not have the same fix. ah, thanks for that hint which

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-03 Thread Sam Spilsbury
Unity-2D is not supported in never versions and does not have the same fix. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:17 PM, axel 160...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: just seems to follow the trend of our time that others seem to know better whats good for you and use their power and ignorance to stick to their

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2012-08-21 Thread Steve Flynn
On 21 August 2012 20:51, Colin Law 160...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: As I understand it unity-2d is to be removed in Quantal(12.10), emulation of 3d being provided by llvmpipe for hardware that does not support it, so that Unity (3d) will run. From that point of view it appears that this bug

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2012-03-21 Thread Jan Bakuwel
On 22/03/12 09:45, Ingo Gerth wrote: Oh my god I can not believe this bug returned recently in 12.04. What a regression! It's like a nightmare! I am starting to think there must be an evil force trying to make the Ubuntu desktop harder to use! First this really annoying persistent bug, then

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2012-03-09 Thread Yann Dìnendal
Renzo: In precise (ubuntu 12.04), you can resize the window by grabbing the overlay scrollbar, which is much larger than the border, and available regardless of the session type (unity-2d or anything else). Yann Dìnendal On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 16:42, Renzo Bagnati

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2011-12-22 Thread The Fiddler
2011/12/22 u-foka ta...@eisenberger.hu Maybe the best would be a configurable size for the hidden grab area :) Currently it's difficult to change, how I seen the size is hardcoded into the theme right? But is this really necessary? Three options: - review feedback and pick a sensible

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2011-12-22 Thread u-foka
Actually the size of the shadow sounds as a good starting point! -- Eisenberger Tamás ta...@eisenberger.hu On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:07 AM, The Fiddler 160...@bugs.launchpad.netwrote: 2011/12/22 u-foka ta...@eisenberger.hu Maybe the best would be a configurable size for the hidden grab

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2011-12-22 Thread Steve Flynn
On 22 December 2011 02:21, Paul Sladen ubu...@paul.sladen.org wrote: Steve Flynn: are you on Unity 2D or Unity 3D? 3D. -- Steve When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. -- You received this bug notification

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2011-12-21 Thread Jan Bakuwel
On 21/12/11 11:32, Nacnud Nosmoht wrote: Broken on Oneiric. And I still haven't seen a fix. And I don't care if this is or isn't a bug, and all the other nuances, I just want a way to be able to resize windows. I can make it work if I have a mouse plugged in, but using the touchpad, with my

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2011-12-21 Thread The Fiddler
2011/12/21 John Lea 160...@bugs.launchpad.net @jan-bakuwel-gmail; in what way is the current Ubuntu window resizing behaviour different from the Microsoft window resizing behaviour? In both Windows and Ubuntu we have several px on the left, right and bottom of the windows that is dragable,

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2011-12-21 Thread The Fiddler
2011/12/21 John Lea 160...@bugs.launchpad.net @stapostol; thanks for your response, I've marked the bug as also affects unity2d. Re. the sizing of the dragable area, in WindowsXP the dragable area is 5px (but it may well be larger in Windows 7). So yes the size could be increased, but 5px

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2011-12-21 Thread u-foka
Hy! I'm a little bit afraid of a larger resize area.. If I click 10px far from a window, I probably want to raise the window below. 5-6px is ok, but more is risky, especially because that area is invisible. Eisenberger Tamás ta...@eisenberger.hu On 12/21/2011 03:56 PM, The Fiddler wrote:

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2011-12-21 Thread Jan Bakuwel
Hi John, On 22/12/11 01:59, John Lea wrote: @jan-bakuwel-gmail; in what way is the current Ubuntu window resizing behaviour different from the Microsoft window resizing behaviour? In both Windows and Ubuntu we have several px on the left, right and bottom of the windows that is dragable, in

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2011-12-21 Thread Steve Flynn
On 21 December 2011 20:54, David N. Welton davidnwel...@gmail.com wrote: Bingo!  My laptop has a very high resolution screen, and this bug drives me batty.  Don't the developers ever test on a system with a high resolution screen and a trackpad? Try using a trackball. Absolute nightmare. --

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2011-12-21 Thread u-foka
Hy! I can grab the 5px areas easily with trackball or touchpad on my T61 (14,1 1440x900), on the other hand, the 1px area is nearly impossible to catch with any display and pointing device. Eisenberger Tamás ta...@eisenberger.hu On 12/21/2011 10:53 PM, Steve Flynn wrote: On 21 December 2011

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2011-12-21 Thread Steve Flynn
On 21 December 2011 22:27, u-foka ta...@eisenberger.hu wrote: Hy! I can grab the 5px areas easily with trackball or touchpad on my T61 (14,1 1440x900), on the other hand, the 1px area is nearly impossible to catch with any display and pointing device. Alienware m15x, 1900 * 1200. If I hit

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2011-12-21 Thread u-foka
Maybe the best would be a configurable size for the hidden grab area :) Currently it's difficult to change, how I seen the size is hardcoded into the theme right? Eisenberger Tamás ta...@eisenberger.hu On 12/22/2011 01:26 AM, Steve Flynn wrote: On 21 December 2011 22:27,

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2011-08-22 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:05 PM, The Fiddler 160...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: 2011/8/21 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com Invisible borders are not implemented in unity-2d Are they technically infeasible or could they be implemented with some effort? If so, where should they be implemented?

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2011-08-21 Thread The Fiddler
2011/8/21 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com Invisible borders are not implemented in unity-2d Are they technically infeasible or could they be implemented with some effort? If so, where should they be implemented? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop