Re: [Usability] Drag handles for dialogs and other windows

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 03:03:04PM +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 02:20, Alan Horkan wrote:
> 
> > I am not hung up about grippies not something I miss much.
> > In most cases I think I know to hover over the window edge until the
> > cursor changes or I use Maximise.
> 
> Ideally, shouldn't the window manager be able to tell if a window is
> resizable or not and decorate the corners of its frame accordingly,
> rather than adding something that takes up space in the window itself
> (and is somewhat misleading anyway since you may or may not be able to
> resize the window from other corners too, depending on the WM/theme)?

Window manager themes should be sensitive to resizability, if indicate it
at all. Mine is buggy in that all windows appear to be resizable.

The space taken is almost always empty.

Besides providing more grabbable area, the grip entices the user to resize
the window by moving the bottom-right corner. Resizing the window this way
is a little bit faster than resizing by moving the top or the left because
there is less to be computed; a top-left resize is both a move and a resize.

I'd say the grip is leading, not misleading. While you may be able to
resize the window from any side or corner, the grip leads you to the one
that produces the most appealing (least flickery) effects.

Cheers,
Greg