GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 97762
Fitts' Law => scrollbars against screen edge
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Description of Problem: This is not completely speciffic to Metacity, but this seems like the best place to start. When a window is maximized, the scrollbar is several pixels from the edge of the screen. Fitts' Law suggests that it would best be at the very edge of the screen. This can be experimented with by draging a window so the scrollbar is partially off the screen to the right; I find it very useful. For this to work, metacity would have to hide the boarders of a maximized window alltogether, and possibly size the window soas to hade the first few pixels of the application. (Or else applications would have to be polite and make their scrollbars toutch the edge of the window.)
Metacity allows themes to eliminate all borders from maximized windows, and some themes do this (Atlanta, Bluecurve) I don't think there's any additional work to be done for this in metacity. Presumably apps that don't put scrollbars all the way to the side should be fixed (maybe this involves gtk changes, I don't know). In any case, not a metacity issue. Suggest filing a bug against a specific app (if the app doesn't work with a theme that drops borders) and tracking it from there.