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Bug 154571 - mist horizontal resize area to small
mist horizontal resize area to small
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-themes
Classification: Deprecated
Component: theme-mist
HEAD
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: campd
campd
: 163507 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-10-05 14:49 UTC by Alexander Larsson
Modified: 2007-01-22 17:35 UTC
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Description Alexander Larsson 2004-10-05 14:49:20 UTC
From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122860

When using the Mist theme, a window's border appears to be only one
unit thick.  This makes it particularly hard to grab to resize etc.

Either I've become less coordinated, or something's changed in
Metacity or GNOME Themes to make it even harder to do this.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-themes-2.6.0-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Preferences->Theme
2. Select Mist
3. Open a new File Manager window
4. Attempt to position the mouse cursor over the right-hand edge of
the window
    

Actual Results:  It is difficult to steadily position the mouse cursor
over the right-hand edge.

Expected Results:  There is a slightly larger target to aim for, and
the left-right resize mouse cursor appears.

Additional info:

The left and right window edges seem to be about five units wide in
the Bluecurve theme, about five times wider than the Mist ones.
Comment 1 Vincent Noel 2004-10-05 20:03:19 UTC
The Mist theme for metacity is thin, but I think that's by design. I don't think
that's a bug. 
Comment 2 Vincent Noel 2005-01-10 17:10:56 UTC
*** Bug 163507 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 August 2005-01-22 02:21:04 UTC
The interaction behaviour should ideally be standard and independent of the
*visual* design. You should be able to design a theme with thin window borders
that is as easy to manage as i.e. the default Blue Curve theme. 

Another slightly annoying thing with all(?) Gnome themes is that you can't (as
in Windows) close a maximized window by clicking on the topmost rightmost
position on the screen, since you are then clicking on the window border. For
maximized windows, the title bar has a border, but not the rest of the window (!?)
Comment 4 Thomas Wood 2007-01-22 17:35:18 UTC
This is by design. I suspect ideally you would actually turn off the resize border entirely. This is not unusual, as in (for example) Mac OS X you can only resize windows by using the resize grip in the corner of the window, and there is no resize border at all.