Re: [Usability] Re: Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Chrome Changes

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Mar 5, 2006, at 7:49 AM, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 04:36 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > ...
> > You don't need a status bar to display a resizing grippy. On Mac OS 
> > X, Safari has a resizing grippy even when the status bar is turned 
> > off (as it is by default), Mail has a resizing grippy even though the 
> > status bar (yes it does have one) is at the top of the window instead 
> > of the bottom, and Preview has a resizing grippy even though (like 
> > Evince) it has no status bar at all. When these programs are 
> > displaying documents that don't need vertical scrollbars, the grippy 
> > has a transparent background.
>
> What you can do in Cocoa and what you can do in GTK+ are two entirely 
> different things.  Right now, the only way to get a grippy with GTK+ 
> is to have a status bar.
> ...

I wasn't talking about toolkits at all, and I don't see the relevance 
to whether an app *should* have a grippy when it doesn't have a status 
bar. If whoever implemented it in Epiphany or Evince was willing to 
dual-license their code, the GTK+ people could even copy the 
implementation into GTK+ later.

The closest analogy here is probably Internet Explorer, which had 
rearrangable toolbars on Windows 95 even though that wasn't part of the 
Windows APIs until Windows 98. Probably a bit of copying and pasting 
happened there, too.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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