Re: [Usability] Resizability of windows

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 04:27 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> Relatedly, I disagree strongly with the HIG (and Metacity) on which  
> buttons should be in the title bar for each type of window. It is  
> broken for an alert to have a close button in its title bar, because  
> that misleads people into thinking they can opt out of the alert.

Well, the HIG authors agree with this, but metacity doesn't allow it to
happen IIRC.  (The inconsistency in between the screenshot/text is just
a bug.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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