Window resizing handle not present in many apps

[Wouter Stomp]

The little resize handle in the lower right corner of windows, is not present in
a lot of programs.

Has it: nautilus, gedit, evince
Doesn't have it: firefox, evolution and most others

I think all gnome apps should have it, as it is an important clue at how to do
this and it makes resizing more comfortable, as there is a bigger area that can
be clicked to resize. Without it, it is really easy to miss the right area when
clicking/dragging, especially because when you click the mouse button often you
move the mouse a little as well.

(I guess there should be bugreports for all the apps that don't have it, but
that's too much to do right now for me)

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

Created an attachment (id=3104)
The little thing that is missing from so many apps

Created an attachment for if it's not clear what I mean.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. "gnome-desktop" is "gnome-about" binary and a library. Your
issue is app specific, could you open different bugs for the sofware
corresponding to your description?

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for posting this bug.

Does this occur in Lucid?

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Confirmed in Maverick. I had the opportunity to resize Firefox, Evolution, Terminal, & Synaptic on any outer surface but the margin of error was very small and it would be helpful to have such a handle. This seems like a wishlist for all noted packages and should be marked as such.

apt-cache policy evolution
evolution:
  Installed: 2.30.3-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.30.3-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.30.3-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt-cache policy gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal:
  Installed: 2.31.91-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.31.91-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.31.91-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt-cache policy synaptic
synaptic:
  Installed: 0.63.1ubuntu13
  Candidate: 0.63.1ubuntu13
  Version table:
 *** 0.63.1ubuntu13 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[bcush2 (bcush2)]

My issues are Maverick based too

[MacRules (macrules)]

I have had this issue from version 7 of Ubuntu until the current 10.10.
This is VERY ANNOYING.

I do not agree with the statement that this is an app bug: I do agree that it would be nice to have the right corner with this,
but the corner without the triangle should work normal as well.
At the moment I get RSI when trying to enlarge a window.

Can that specifik problem be fixed? so enlarge the area on the side of the windows that activates the resize tool.

[Yariv Barkan (yarivbarkan)]

The window borders (as of Ubuntu 10.10) of all applications are extremely thin.
Because of this it is very hard to 'catch' them with a mouse in order to resize the window.

A possible solution is to use a resize grip (that small area at the bottom right corner of some windows which implement it). This resize grip should be displayed and handled by the *window manage*. That way all resizeable windows will have it.

It is instructive to see how Mac OS X did it. They got that one right.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

This is fixed for synaptic in Natty, see the attached screenshot. Setting the synaptic task to Fix Released.
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[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Fix also released in Natty for gnome-terminal, updating accordingly.
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[Mörgæs (moergaes)]

Setting to 'invalid' as the user interface has changed dramatically since 2005.
If a similar problem appears in the latest Ubuntu release please open a new report.