Comment 177 for bug 160311

Jan, I don't think the border needs to be visually thicker, just the
"invisible" one.

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Jan Bakuwel <email address hidden>wrote:

> I was wondering why I felt strain in my muscles, then engaged the brain,
> then discovered this thread :-)
> Making the border thicker obviously has undesirable optical effects.
> IMHO resizing of windows should always be comfortable and intuitive
> (Microsoft can do it, can't Ubuntu/Gnome/Metacity??).
>
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> Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160311
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> Status in Ayatana Design: Confirmed
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Triaged
> Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress
> Status in “human-gtk-theme” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “light-themes” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: metacity
>
> - The issue has been an issue for users (especially of large) screens for
> several releases
> - Trackpad users seem to be particularly impacted by this
> - The issue appears to have been significantly aggravated in Lucid by
> changing the border width from 3 pixels to 1 pixel
>
> The window borders in metacity are far too thin to be used for comfortable
> window resizing, and resize handles are not available in all applications
> (or even most). In fact, of all the windows I have open right now, not a
> single one of them has a resize handle. The result is that I get a lot of
> "misses" when I try to drag a window border, which usually results in my
> clicking on the wrong window altogether. The best fix for this usability bug
> is to create an "invisible" region around each non-maximized window about
> 4px thick that can be used for resizing (in addition to the visible border).
> Or perhaps there should be a border thickness option on the System >
> Preferences > Windows dialog (although the default thickness should still be
> increased considerably). Ideally all windows would also have a resize handle
> but I realize that these have to be application controlled (at least that
> seems to be the position of the metacity team).
>
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