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SA (superaorta) wrote : Re: [Bug 1274219] Re: can't resize maximised windows / kubuntu

Because I want the window a different size and find resizing fast and more
natural then un maximusing and resizing and then dragging...
 On 29 Jan 2014 18:50, "Jonathan Riddell" <email address hidden> wrote:

> whyever would you want to resize a maximised window?
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> Title:
> can't resize maximised windows / kubuntu
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> Status in "kde-workspace" package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> It appears that from kde 4.11.3 / kde 13.10 that maximised windows in
> KDE cannot be resized by dragging the borders - this has been possible
> in all previous versions of KDE and is very useful.
>
> I've seen this thread https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324011 and
> while I don't fully understand it, it look like the blame is being
> placed at the foot of the oxygen theme which should but doesn't
> support borders.
>
> There is a patch against this but it looks like the kde developers are
> refusing to import this into 4.11.x and are only willing to let it in
> kde 5.
>
> Could kubuntu accept this patch please? this is an incredibly annoying
> problem - enough so that we have several machines that will stay at
> 13.04 until this is fixed! (btw anyone know an easy way to revert a
> distro upgrade to reverse this one the test machine we put to 13.10?).
>
> Ta!
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