Comment 350 for bug 160311

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Aleve Sicofante (sicofante) wrote : Re: [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013/1/31 Sam Spilsbury <email address hidden>

> On 31/01/2013 8:51 AM, "Aleve Sicofante" <email address hidden> wrote:
> >
> > 2013/1/31 Sam Spilsbury <email address hidden>
> >
> > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:08 AM, OpenLaptop <email address hidden>
> wrote:
> > > > Funny to see this bug is still not fixed sinds 2007 (6 YEARS AGO!!!)
> > >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > 1. It is fixed in Unity-3D, which has been the default since 12.10
> > >
> >
> > No it's not. I'm using Unity-3D, which is also the default in 12.04, and
> > borders aren't equal when it comes to resizing. It's almost imposible for
> > me to grab top and left borders, while bottom and right are pretty easy
> to
> > grab. I'd say there's at least a 3-4 pixels difference between the two
> > cases.
>
> Code-wise its exactly the same for the right, left and bottom borders.
>
> The top border doesn't have the padding as it already has a grab area on
> the titlebar.
>

That's why we call it a bug: probably you see the code being correct, but
since the behavior isn't, there's something going on and it must be fixed.

The grab area in the titlebar has nothing to do with the resizing area (or
shouldn't).