On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 16:15 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > In a window like this one, so little of it would benefit from resizing > (only two tabs out of five) that the overall pain of accidental > resizing might well be greater than the overall benefit from > resizability.
I'd want to see some data on how often people accidentally resize windows before making any final judgement on that (and then how many of those don't know how to recover). I dunno, maybe if we really want the maximize button to always mean "full screen", then we still keep it out of dialog and preference window title bars, but still allow them to be resized by dragging the edges (maybe indicated by showing the grippy thing in the bottom corner?)... that's probably the first thing I'd try in the existing theme capplet anyway. I don't consciously look to see if windows have a maximize button before trying to resize them, would be interesting to find out if others do. > Really? I think the zoom button is one of the worst parts of OS X. :-) > Its behavior is (inevitably) so inconsistent between windows, that it's > impossible to tell what it's going to do unless you've memorized its > behavior for that particular class of window. *shrug* Can't say I've ever had much of a problem with it, always seems to do more or less what I expect. And if you don't like what it does, you can always change it (at least for the lifetime of the window); ultimately all it does it toggle between two sizes and positions of your choice. > As I said in the bug report, that would be better handled by a theme > with large title-bar close buttons, than by penalizing *everyone* with > the confusion of multiple close buttons. I'm not sure how that would help screenreader users; they would still have to infer the implicit-apply-ness behaviour by the absence of certain buttons in the dialog, rather than the presence of a button that positively told them. (Although that's partly, perhaps, because our screenreaders don't really do anything to describe the type of each window to the user... maybe we need an 'instant apply' WM hint that they can vocalise somehow?) > I think Gnome could trounce OS X accessibility-wise, but not with our > current shambles of a configuration GUI ... But that's another story. Well, at least that's already being worked on, I believe... Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
