Re: [Usability] Resizability of windows

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On May 5, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Alan Horkan wrote:
> ...
> Irrespective of that I hope we can agree that it would be useful to be
> able to have a maximize button on windows with scrollable lists or 
> other widgets which could expand to fill any available space and give 
> users with larger screens the options to quickly view more of what is 
> available.
>
> Any thoughts on how we can make it so that useful maximize button can 
> be shown in relevant cases?
> ...

Sure, that's very easy: preferences windows (such as the Theme 
Preferences window) can declare themselves to be normal windows, not 
dialogs. (I reported an example of this as an Evolution bug last June. 
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308711>)

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