Re: [Usability] Grid-based "static sizing" option

[Owen Williams <ywwg usa net>]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 07:15 +0300, Jason (spot) Brower wrote:
> Perhaps you could have a maximize button that will grow the window to
> the most available place on the screen?  Right click for the and left
> click for normal maximize.


This sounds similar to a feature I used to write for metacity[1], which
implemented a "maximize to fit" option.  A window would expand as far as
it could until it hit other window borders.  The patch doesn't work
anymore, but it wouldn't be hard to reimplement.

owen

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151842