Re: [Usability] Resizability of windows

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

[...]
> Having said all that, I don't understand why the Theme Preferences 
> window is not a dialog and is resizable, but doesn't become 
> maximizable automatically. That looks like too much flexibility in 
> Metacity.
I think the problem here is the theme preferences is a dialog *and* it 
is resizable. If it where a normal window, I think everyone would be 
agreed it should have a maximise button. If it where just a dialog 
window, it would not be resizable, and therefore there would be no 
question about a maximise button. We ought then to decide if it is a 
normal window or a dialog.

> > Different languages will have different string lengths and 
> > accessibility themes will have different font sizes so if your user 
> > interface will not resize nicely it is BROKEN by design.
> > ...
>
> But if someone *needs* to resize a window to see all the text, it is 
> broken just as much.
If this can be fixed, then we could make the theme preferences window 
non-resizable, and we would have a proper dialog window again. What 
would be the ideal size of a fixed size theme preference dialog? I 
assume nothing bigger than 640x480 would be a first rule, unless it 
dynamically chose a size of x% of the screen width and height. Any thoughts?

-Thomas