GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 320373
Fitt's Law Whackiness
Last modified: 2005-11-10 01:31:46 UTC
Version details: Breezy Ideally the applet should abide by Fitt's law, so that when you throw your mouse to the top of the screen and click, the applet is selected. It does this, but only after you've played with the preferences. It doesn't seem to matter what state you've left the preferences in, just that you've played with them. Very strange.
I cannot reproduce here, my steps: * Remove deskbar from panel * Add deskbar through right-click/add * Wait for it to become usable * left click on top of the screen The entry becomes focused, as it should be. I didn't play with the prefs in any step. Very strange, indeed..
I can reproduce (Breezy, Clearlooks-based theme). I'll try to squash this one.
I think it's fixed - a "gnomeapplet.EXPAND_MINOR" went walkabout, somewhere along the move from circa version 0.7.0. This does mean that, for a 48px panel, that the GtkEntry ends up being 48px tall, which looks a little weird (mini-commander does this too). We might want to re-jig the GTK equivalent of a LayoutManager (sorry, my Java background) so that the GtkEntry is stretched horizontally but not vertically (and remember to deal with vertical panels - ick).