Re: [PATCH] GUI enhancements for gsearchtool

[John Sheehan <John Sheehan sun com>]

Sawfish seems to handle this, provided (I think) you have set 
"Automatically select window gravity from position on screen" in the 
Moving and Resizing capplet).

To see this in action in Gnome 1.4, open the Centre Centre, position
it's window to touch the bottom of the screen, and click on the
Miscellaneous tab - the window grows upwards.

-John

Calum Benson wrote:
>
>Christian Rose wrote:
>> 
>> One of the Interface Hall of Shame's criticisms against the Windows 95
>> search tool is that it resizes itself after the search -- the window
>> gets bigger when the results are shown, and if you have positioned the
>> window near the bottom of the screen, results will likely be shown
>> off-screen, so there is a danger of not getting feedback that the search
>> completed and results were found. Have you considered this? What is your
>> opinion?
>
>Well, my personal opinion is that a dialog should be clever enough to
>reposition itself when it resizes, so that none of it lies off-screen. 
>Dialogs shouldn't generally go around resizing and repositioning
>themselves, of course, but I would argue that it's just about acceptable
>if it's in direct response to a user action.
>
>What do Macintosh dialogs with disclosure triangles do in this
>situation?  I can't remember, to be honest.
>
>It's a reasonable criticism, though... I told you the design wasn't
>perfect!  :o)
>
>Cheeri,
>Calum.
>
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