Re: [Usability] Dialogs and Maximize button

["Olaf van der Spek" <olafvdspek gmail com>]

On 9/17/06, Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor ubuntu com> wrote:
> > > Resizing the window to make this content viewable makes the dialog
> > > much more useful for those users. In reality, there should be
> > > absolutely NO windows on the desktop, which cannot be resized.
> > > ...
>
> Dialogs that only contain some text look quite ugly if you start to
> resize them. So why should ALL dialogs be resizable?

I think the internal design should be such that they're resizable. If
a dialog doesn't contain variable size content there's no reason for
the end user to (be able to) resize that dialog.