GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 154571
mist horizontal resize area to small
Last modified: 2007-01-22 17:35:18 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.
The Mist theme for metacity is thin, but I think that's by design. I don't think that's a bug.
*** Bug 163507 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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 (!?)
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.