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[ Sam Spilsbury ]
* New Ambiance properties for shadow and padding added to
metacity theme files (for invisible window grip support).
These are read by
Solution applied in Natty (will be in Ubuntu 11.04).
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Status: Confirmed = Fix Released
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* debian/patches/06_Add_UXD_shadows_and_borders.patch:
- patch for a new key in the ubuntu theme for shows and borders
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** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu)
Status:
** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
Milestone: lucid-round-3 = nt3-ayatana
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Assignee: (unassigned) = Sam SmSpillaz Spilsbury (smspillaz)
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I think a good modification to the invisible drag handle proposal
would be to rather use resize border resistance. This is a solution
that won't require more than 1 px of UI space to work well. How I
envisage it working is:
1) keep your arbitrarily small window border resize
2) Define a
2011/1/24 Neilen Marais launch...@chatsubo.lagged.za.net
I think a good modification to the invisible drag handle proposal
would be to rather use resize border resistance. This is a solution
that won't require more than 1 px of UI space to work well. How I
envisage it working is:
1) keep
I thought I was the only one who really had a problem with this. But
then I thought that wouldn't make sense, and that probably nobody had
filed a bug.
So I searched and found this.
And I'm shocked this HUGE bug has been filed here for around 3 years yet it's
low priority.
How can this be low
MikeLoco14: Yes, corner drag functionality is already in natty (which will
likely become Ubuntu 11.04 in April 2011).
As the blog post from 9 October 2010 notes: The credit for this work goes to
Cody Russell. Cody is an Ubuntu Member, see Cody's Launchpad page:
I'm getting worried. There is this *very* annoying bug that affects
every day the usability of the whole OS and this bug has been open and
not fixed for 3 years!!! Don't you listen to users at all?!
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hannuko: I don't think the One Hundred Paper Cuts project is being taken
very seriously. Of all bugs in the project, this one has the highest
number of comments and second-highest number of people affected, but is
tagged as Low importance.
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- This should mostly be fixed for Natty and might get backported to earlier
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+ This should mostly be fixed for Natty and might get backported to
+ earlier releases as well.
+
Thanks Vish.
Would it be possible to amend the following sentence so it reads:
+ This should mostly be fixed for Natty and *will* get backported to
10.04 and might get backported to earlier releases as well.
10.04 is a LTS after all...
thanks,
Jan
On 03/01/11 07:53, Vish wrote:
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On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Martin Spacek launch...@mspacek.mm.st wrote:
Sorry for the noise, but as others have pointed out (over the years!),
one workaround is using ALT+middle mouse button to resize from anywhere
within a window. Just want to add that there's a key in gconf that let's
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This should mostly be fixed for Natty and might get backported to earlier
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Binary package hint: metacity
- The issue has been an issue for users
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No more comments needed
This should mostly be fixed for Natty and might get backported to earlier
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Binary package hint: metacity
- The issue has been an issue for users (especially of large) screens for
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The best fix for this usability bug is to create an invisible region
around each non-maximized window about 4px thick that can be used for
resizing
I would suggest creating this resizing area only _inside_ this window, 4
pixels close to border.
Or perhaps there should be a border
Sorry for the noise, but as others have pointed out (over the years!),
one workaround is using ALT+middle mouse button to resize from anywhere
within a window. Just want to add that there's a key in gconf that let's
you change that to using ALT+right mouse button instead:
Whatever solution you people come up with for 11.04 makes no difference
to me, but holy heck this needs to be fixed. It's embarrassing to have a
100 Paper Cuts project without this being on it.
If you're going to make a 1 pixel border on your default theme, you'd
better figure out a way for
I completely agree, resizing windows in Ubuntu 10.10 (with default
theme) is a frustrating experience. And I'm using a *normal* resolution
(1366 x 768)...
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The default ubuntu 10.10 theme has 1px borders. It's resizing hell. This
is really driving me crazy!
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@Lieven Blancke
How can that be true? Why itsn't it fix in that Ubuntu release? :S
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Seem to be solved in GNOME 3
http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/2010/10/09/getting-a-grip/
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 20:48, Ben Shadwick benshadw...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone know if this issue still exists in the current state of
Gnome 3?
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I'm sad to see that a corner grip is the way they've decided to address
things, as it's really just a workaround.
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On 01/11/10 09:20, Ben Shadwick wrote:
I'm sad to see that a corner grip is the way they've decided to address
things, as it's really just a workaround.
+1.
So no fix for Gnome 2.x - and a half-fix for Gnome 3?
Can't believe the Gnome folks (assuming they're deciding about this)
allow
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+ This should mostly be fixed for Natty and might get backported to earlier
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- The issue has been an issue for users (especially of large) screens
Just wanted to say that I too find window resizing to be a pain. I'll
be changing the config file to widen the border. In case it matters,
I'd vote for the addition of a border width control to the configuration
UI. Seems like Appearance/Theme/Customize.../Window Border would be a
natural place
Hmm... I was able to increase border size for left, right, bottom
borders by editing the XML config as described by Troy James Sobotka
(comment #11). But, like Scaine (comment #58), I was not able to change
the top border, even after changing every value in the normal
frame_geometry block that
It is pretty clear that this is an issue and it is also pretty clear
that the folks who 'get to say' do not want to fix it.
I seems pointless to continue nominating it for the next release since
that tactic has been ineffective since 6.06.
Seems to me it is time to find an alternative to the
Brandon, I am working on something that should help to prevent issues
like this in the future. We could all donate money and get a patch if
needed, but then again only those lucky enough to know about launchpad
will be the ones to find it. Upstream may not even take it.
I am not sure how long it
Does anyone know if this issue still exists in the current state of
Gnome 3?
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I'm a bit surprised at the low severity. I would think that a major
usability issue in the default theme would be high.
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From the huge amount of comments here with people wanting a fix, and the
frequency that this bug would be encountered for the average user, I agree, it
should be higher. A simple task such as resizing a window should work better.
Yet, we must sit here and wish that it would be fixed in Metacity
This bug is the usability bug no 1 since years!
I don't get why it got not fixed long time ago.
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I know you said no more comments, but I just have to add one more.
I don't actually know what Ubuntu's 'mission' is, but I expect it would
like to become a popular desktop operating system that can be used and
maintained by anyone. Well until you fix your processes I just can't see
that even
krona: I think the description for Ubuntu bug #1 (
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 ), under What should happen
point #3 is relevant to this bug.
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Scaine:
I can't see anyone taking up this torch when a new Gnome and theme engine are
just round the corner.
Perhaps.. Should we need to bring this bug to the attention of the Gnome
developers ASAP?
To my mind, the importance (low) of this bug speaks volumes regarding
whether it will be fixed.
georgehu: It's actually currently a per-theme setting in the theme
definition files, and there are some themes that are set to provide
thicker grab bars than others. In my personal opinion it should be a
theme-independent setting that is configurable by end-users via a GUI
control.
Alden: I agree
Ben - thanks for the info. As a temporary workaround, which file do I
edit? I'm using the Radiance theme.
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madbiologist: Googled around and found a recent forum thread with a post
describing how to do the theme file edit:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9881877#post9881877
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Comment #11 already details how to manually work around this bug. Of
course, if you change theme thereafter, you'll have to edit that theme's
metactiy-1.xml file too.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/160311/comments/11
I hate to be doom and gloom, but this metacity bug is
Hi all,
I don't want to see this fixed because it works that way in Windows. I
want to see it fixed because it is logical to want it to work this way.
I do not think it is too much to ask for an advanced operating system to
be adapted to the way users use it, instead of forcing users to
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Jan Bakuwel
160...@bugs.launchpad.netwrote:
Hi all,
I don't want to see this fixed because it works that way in Windows. I
want to see it fixed because it is logical to want it to work this way.
I do not think it is too much to ask for an advanced
John, this is why we test the solution. Should someone implement a fix,
I will volunteer for testing.
We need to ensure that this fix works across the board for compiz,
metacity, popular default themes, etc. single monitor, dual monitor.
ATI/nvidia/Intel graphics (if that matters).
This needs
It seems that with the newest update of ubuntu 10.10, the border is
easier to grab. Except for the terminal window, it is still hard to grab
the border to do resizing.
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I was unaware of the menu choices presented by right-clicking the title
bar. :( That's not a technical issue, that's a training issue.
In my opinion the resize option is very usable and makes this bug
mute.
Would usability improve if folks were encouraged to right-click the title
bar by
I do not think so. Sure, many would get the hint and eventually figure
it out, but many would be put-off just trying to figure out how to
resize, even if they were successful. By default in Ubuntu with Compiz
on you can also control+middle-click to resize. But one thing about
Linux and free
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It would be nice to see some discussion of a theme-independent solution
to this issue. Expecting end-users to edit per-theme configuration files
is a non-ideal solution at best. This is a huge ease-of-use issue for me
and many others: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2571/
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Kate - how is This can be mitigated by switching to the Dust or Clear
Looks theme a fix? If I install Ubuntu 10.10 on a new machine, the
default theme is still Ambience with 1 px borders. Are users required
to just *know* that they need to change a theme to be able to resize
windows? No other
You are do right.
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Melroy van den Berg
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Datum: wo, okt. 13, 2010 18:39
Onderwerp: [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is
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** Changed in: ubuntu-release-notes
Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released
** Also affects: human-gtk-theme (Ubuntu Maverick)
Importance: Low
Status: Invalid
** Also affects: light-themes (Ubuntu Maverick)
Importance: Low
Status: Triaged
** Also affects: metacity
Release notes task has been committed
** Changed in: ubuntu-release-notes
Status: New = Fix Committed
** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Kenneth Wimer (kwwii) = (unassigned)
** Changed in: ayatana-design
Assignee: Kenneth Wimer (kwwii) = Vish (vish)
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This has been added to the Ubuntu Release Notes.
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Brett, I randomly stumbled upon this one some minutes ago:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/TechnicalOverview
Knows issues - Common desktop issues
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there is a blueprint for Natty.
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-hci-n-resizing-windows
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** Also affects: ubuntu-release-notes
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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How would you customize a hotspot?
I'm seeing - radiance - a kind of V-shaped 'hotspot' for resizing from
the corners that is 1 pixel high, possibly 7 pixels wide, at for
instance the right-hand side of the top of the window, then 1 pixel
wide, possibly 7 pixels high, at the top of the right-hand
I have made an error in my comments to this bug report. I would like
to ask the people experiencing this to try what I described (resizing
from the corners) with Metacity (desktop effects disabled), not
Compiz. Metacity seems to behave considerably better here than Compiz,
where the extended
https://code.launchpad.net/~cimi/light-themes/rounded-bottom-corners
Mature branch with rounded corners at bottom, from 1px height to 4px.
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anyone wanting to try light-themes patched with the above branch in
Maverick here is the deb
** Attachment added: light-themes_0.1.8_all.deb
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Everyone knows this is a problem – more comments don’t help more, they
actually distract people from doing work on it.
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