Re: [Gimp-developer] Allow Maximise in Dialogs, like in Paint ShopPro 8

2003-08-18 Thread Tor Lillqvist
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 07:23:39PM +, Tor Lillqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this is a silly question, but does the maximize button on modern X11 window managers behave differently than in Windows? Doesn't it always make the window fill the whole screen? Sorry, I was a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Allow Maximise in Dialogs, like in Paint ShopPro 8

2003-08-18 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 20:30, Tom Mraz wrote: Please file it against metacity. But don't hope for fix because Havoc won't allow to change this *#$! behaviour. Well, I really don't see what The GIMP could do about this but of course I might be missing something important. We don't disable

Re: [Gimp-developer] Allow Maximise in Dialogs, like in Paint ShopPro 8

2003-08-17 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Sven Neumann wrote: I was playing around in Paint Shop Pro trying to see what it does well and what caught my interest today was that in seemingly every dialog window you are able to maximise the window unlike standard dialogs where this functionality is usually

Re: [Gimp-developer] Allow Maximise in Dialogs, like in Paint ShopPro 8

2003-08-17 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:05, Alan Horkan wrote: The problem is that to resize the windows you need to grab the window edge and drag, so this useful and worthwhile feature is wasted. If a window can be resized then it really should have the Maximise Window decoration (with the rare

Re: [Gimp-developer] Allow Maximise in Dialogs, like in Paint ShopPro 8

2003-08-17 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Sven Neumann wrote: Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:25:54 +0200 From: Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Allow Maximise in Dialogs, like in Paint Shop Pro 8 Hi, On Sun, 2003-08-17 at

Re: [Gimp-developer] Allow Maximise in Dialogs, like in Paint ShopPro 8

2003-08-17 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Sorry if this is a silly question, but does the maximize button on modern X11 window managers behave differently than in Windows? Doesn't it always make the window fill the whole screen? (Hmm, or is it so that even on Windows it is possible to make the maximize button not always maximizing to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Allow Maximise in Dialogs, like in Paint ShopPro 8

2003-08-17 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 21:04, Alan Horkan wrote: The ImageMap plugin has the a maximise window decoration but very few other windows do, so even if it is the Window managers fault the GIMP will have some blame to shoulder too. The imagemap plug-in creates a TOPLEVEL window while most

Re: [Gimp-developer] Allow Maximise in Dialogs, like in Paint ShopPro 8

2003-08-17 Thread pcg
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 08:04:41PM +0100, Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bet you Five Euro Havoc Pennington will disagree and that the GIMP should be setting additional hints or suchlike. It already does, that is probably your problem. The ImageMap plugin has the a maximise window

Re: [Gimp-developer] Allow Maximise in Dialogs, like in Paint ShopPro 8

2003-08-17 Thread pcg
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 07:23:39PM +, Tor Lillqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this is a silly question, but does the maximize button on modern X11 window managers behave differently than in Windows? Doesn't it always make the window fill the whole screen? The maximize button does

Re: [Gimp-developer] Allow Maximise in Dialogs, like in Paint ShopPro 8

2003-08-17 Thread Simon . Budig
Marc Lehmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There is no standard protocol for requesting a maximize size (probably there isn't one at all, but I do not know this). Implementing one is easy, getting all the window managers to implement it is not so easy :) The Window Size Hints (XA_WM_NORMAL_HINTS)

Re: [Gimp-developer] Allow Maximise in Dialogs, like in Paint ShopPro 8

2003-08-17 Thread Christopher W. Curtis
On 08/17/03 15:04, Alan Horkan wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Sven Neumann wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:05, Alan Horkan wrote: The problem is that to resize the windows you need to grab the window edge and drag, so this useful and worthwhile feature is wasted. If a window can be resized

Re: [Gimp-developer] Allow Maximise in Dialogs, like in Paint ShopPro 8

2003-08-16 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 21:00, Alan Horkan wrote: I was playing around in Paint Shop Pro trying to see what it does well and what caught my interest today was that in seemingly every dialog window you are able to maximise the window unlike standard dialogs where this functionality is

Re: [Gimp-developer] Allow Maximise in Dialogs, like in Paint ShopPro 8

2003-08-16 Thread pcg
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:21:05PM +0200, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Keep in mind that users might be using text sizes larger than the defaults so static widget layouts are a really bad idea). In general all GIMP dialogs can be maximized and widgets reflow as you described.