Comment 82 for bug 160311
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| fermulator (fermulator) wrote Re: Window Resize Difficult (Window Border Thickness) | #82 |
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So are we getting any closer to deciding an action to solve this problem?...
What daniel wrote on 2009-06-22 seems like a very good compromise. But, it's more of a "workaround" than a solution. If theme writers don't employ the "thick bottom border", then users still have to muck with it themselves.
An accessibility option sounds like a very good idea. Where if the user moves the mouse cursor +/- 0.15% of the border, the cursor would either "snap to border" or be "virtual border" allowing the user to click and then snap to border.
0.15% Because:
* 1024x768 --> +/- 2 & 1 pixels
* 1280x1024 --> +/- 2 & 2 pixels
* 1680x1050 --> +/- 3 & 2 pixels
Right now I have my borders sized to "5 pixel" thickness on a 1680x1050 resolution. This is a good size IMO to easily grab the border when you need to, and it doesn't look too thick.
This allows a decent (but small enough to not be intrusive) desktop real estate area to be used for border catching. As resolution sizes increase, the number of pixels will also increase, scaling properly with the ever increasing resolution sizes.
Of course, this option in accessibility options should be enabled by default, but anyone who finds it "annoying" can disable it if they like. The reason it should be enabled by default is for the obvious reason that "normal" users won't know to go there to enable it. This is a "helpful" default behaviour to make window management easier.