Re: New toplevel behaviour

[Christopher James Lahey <clahey ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 21:00, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> We should avoid this screenshot:
> 
>   http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/pictures/Whoops_I_Did_it_Again.gif
>  (part of http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000059.html)
> 
> Probably it shouldn't be possible to do that. More generally, it
> probably shouldn't be easy to accidentally resize the panel when
> trying to click a launcher or menu.
> 
> One way to approach this (I guess basically what Windows XP does) is
> to have things "locked" by default and you have to unlock them. Or
> just limit resizing the panel to the prefs dialog as it traditionally
> has been.

As long as the potential sizes are limited to the ones that are
currently available in the prefs dialog, even if you make it direct
manipulation to resize, it still won't be able to become that large. 
Even XX Large is only about 2.5 times the size of medium.  Not nearly
the size Joel shows at half the screen.  (I'm on 1024x768.  Even at
640x480, the max size wouldn't be nearly half the screen.)

Thanks,
    Chris