On 5/4/06, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The techincal window manager aspects of this issues strike me as a different problem. It seems to be trying to fit the different window types into predefined categories which seems like a tough task to solve for everything.
Well, an always ongoing task at least, yes. But logically necessary by the design of X11 and the ICCCM (see also http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2005-August/msg00006.html)
Irrespective of that I hope we can agree that it would be useful to be able to have a maximize button on windows with scrollable lists or other widgets which could expand to fill any available space and give users with larger screens the options to quickly view more of what is available. Any thoughts on how we can make it so that useful maximize button can be shown in relevant cases?
You'd probably be interested in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320673. And http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315910 (which shows how to at least workaround the issue for now in your own local copy of metacity). More to the point, though, I think the mess in how the allowed-actions code works needs to be cleared up so that it is maintainable and the originally-intended behavior actually works. That'll probably be a while as it is with competing time constraints. But when that's done, I'd need a list of how we want things to work, which is were Matthew's new wiki page looks useful (though it also means some arguments on wm-spec-list, getting gtk+ to support it too, lots of application patches...). He seems to have omitted a maximization column, though, so that'd be needed. Hope that helps, Elijah _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
