Re: [Usability] Dialogs and Maximize button

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Reed Hedges wrote:

> Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 21:20:56 -0400
> From: Reed Hedges <reed interreality org>
> To: Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>
> Cc: Olaf van der Spek <OvdSpek liacs nl>, usability gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Dialogs and Maximize button
>
>
> One consideration is that it is occasionally nice to be able to resize a
> dialog box in case the application screws up the layout of controls
> inside it.
>

> Also consider my (odd) case: I use devilspie to maximize every new
> window. Normally dialogs are omited from this action but not all (not
> sure exactly why).

Some windows look like dialogs without technically being dialogs and
setting all the standard window hints or following the standard API.
There may be more to it than that though but it is one of the simplest
reasons.

-- 
Alan