Comment 283 for bug 160311

2011/12/21 John Lea <email address hidden>

> @stapostol; thanks for your response, I've marked the bug as also
> affects unity2d. Re. the sizing of the dragable area, in WindowsXP the
> dragable area is 5px (but it may well be larger in Windows 7). So yes
> the size could be increased, but 5px also seems workable.

Indeed, WinXP had 5px draggable areas - but WinXP is 10 years old now and
it might not be the most suitable point of reference for modern design
topics. The draggable area was increased in Vista (same as Win7) and I
think I recall a msdn blog mentioning this was based on usability tests
(but it's been half a decade since then and my google-fu is letting me
down, so don't quote me on that).

In any case, the drag area is invisible in Unity, so a potential size
increase should be a relatively safe change.

> For those who
> need * significantly* larger grabable areas for accessibility reasons,
> another options is to use the love handles with a key combination, see
> http://linux-software-news-tutorials.blogspot.com/2011/06/activate-
> fantastic-grab-handles-in.html for details.
>

These are indeed fantastic, maybe they merit more attention than currently
given. (I love them on my laptop, but I cannot find a way to use them on my
desktop).