Comment 59 for bug 160311

I have this problem at work, where we use Ubuntu. That's a win for the project, for sure!

I've used two different mice: one optical, one laser with adjustable DPI; I've used several display resolutions from 1024x768 through 1600x1200; in no case was I satisfied with the size of the resize handles in the themes I got by default. I do need to resize windows a lot to keep a large amount of information on the screen. I'll typically have 7 or 8 virtual desktops populated with multiple windows each, and I do a ton of coding and testing. I have 7 right now. So you can't chalk it up to people with disabilities or the elderly or the computer illiterate - I am one of you, or should I say "us" or "we" power-users, who CAN tweak things to my liking without asking on forums!

However, being at my job, this means I can't spend all day tweaking things to make my life easier. I have to account for my time, and management doesn't want to find out that I spent an hour downloading themes, finding and tweaking XML to make my GUI better. Neither do I want to have to do this at home and bring it to work. That helps nobody.

I am stuck with an OS that I can't alter in a fundamental way. I quite literally would lose a large amount of productivity if I was forced to use Windows or MacOS, and installing some other distribution isn't a possibility because Ubuntu+GNOME is our standard desktop OS. Being condescending, insulting the intelligence and ability of your fellow users and Linux advocates, and calling a report like this trivial and useless is not in the spirit of GNOME, nor is it the spirit of Ubuntu that I have known. I know it's stressful to moderate threadlike bug reports where people don't understand each other, I'm right there with you, and I personally will give my thanks when this is done.

All the other commenters and I want is a simple control in the appearance control panel. One that should be there, but isn't. I do not have the time to write a control panel extension for GNOME, nor do I have the patience to support one, nor the desire to produce on my own limited time a buggy crapplet that gets rejected and postpones the development a real solution longer. Yes, I know it's annoying to have users demand something, and I do ticket work for clients all the time so I understand that very well, but don't you think it's about time to add that one control to the panel? This enhancement request has been open for a year and a month now.

Is somebody working on this and that's just not being mentioned? Because I'd love to thank them for it, believe me. I'd donate a beer or two for sure if I knew it would get this done. See, I'm even willing to pay a small amount for the development...

BTW, Trivia: Other commenters were correct when they said Windows has had this, and I do remember having the setting in Windows 3.1. There was actually a "Granularity" setting as well that allowed you to set the granularity of window resizing - so it would snap to multiples of X pixels where X was normally 1 but you could say you wanted 4px, 8px, etc.