Comment 285 for bug 160311

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 fact I think the dragable area in
> Ubuntu is slightly larger. We *do* have a bug with the dragable area at
> the top of a window, but are there any other issues you are aware of?
>

This issue has been dragging on for so long I've grown tired of it.

Have you ever tried using a touchpad to resize a window with a default
Ubuntu 11.10 installation on a laptop with a high resolution screen?
I've given up on it on Ubuntu 10.04 and have gotten used to Alt - Right
Click to resize windows until I have time to write a program that can
read my mind as I don't think this will ever be fixed on Ubuntu 10.04.

I can't use Ubuntu 11.10 as yet as Unity is buggy and even if it would
not be buggy it still is a much lesser fit to my needs than Gnome 2. I
might be forced to stay with Ubuntu 10.04 for a few more years as I
think Unity need a lot more work before it's usable for anything more
than occasional desktop work. Fortunately support for 10.04 has been
extended - I assume for obvious reasons?

The point many people are trying to make is that resizing windows needs
to be intuitive.
Dare I say that something that is intuitive should no more depend on the
selected theme as it would on the selected background image?

It has been intuitive on Windows since 3 (can't remember Windows <3
sorry :-P), as well as on any incarnation of Mac OS but somehow we seem
to continue to have to debate and explain something that I would
consider really really obvious.

Perhaps the developers should simply use a laptop with a touchpad and
high resolution screen and see if they can resize windows without
inflicting RSI on themselves. If they can't, it's not fixed, no matter
what technical arguments are put forward.

regards,
Jan