Re: Fitt's Law

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

This issue is of interest to me.

Jeff Waugh wrote:
>   a) break or knowingly disable resizing from the top corners (although the
>   buttons action only on mouseup, and you could ignore potential
>   button-clicks after moves/resizes, that's totaly iffy)

Fitt's law would apply only when the window is maximized, ie: when the 
titlebar is touching the top of the current screen. Resizing is then not 
at all an issue (maximized windows cannot be drag-resized).

>   b) make it that much easier to screw up clicking in that region

Again, the jist of the enhancement is that if the top pixels of the 
object containing the buttons (titlebar in this case) are touching a 
screen edge, then the mouse-sensitive areas of the widgets are extended 
toward the edge of the screen. In the special case that the widget is 
touching two edges, the whole corner is a hot-spot.

The panel already seems to be like this. If I use the default gnome 
top-of-screen panel, with the window-list-menu in the top right, the 
top-right pixel activates it.

--Pat