GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 328908
Bring back the resize grippy
Last modified: 2013-10-30 15:56:49 UTC
As a result of removing the statusbar, evince no longer has a resize grippy. I dearly miss it since I need to resize document views fairly often, and the grippy really does make resizing 3 times easier. Without it, I feel like I'm using kpdf or something ;)
should we just bring status bar back? Bug 311616 is about that
I don't know if the resize grippy is something that's only available on the statusbar; otherwise the horizontal and vertical scrollbar could be made a bit shorter to allow the grippy to be drawn in the remaining space. If it is the only way, then yes I would prefer to have the status bar back. Users who want the maximum available content space will use fullscreen mode anyway...
More of a general gnome/gtk problem but, yes, the resize grippy is nice :-)
(In reply to comment #1) > should we just bring status bar back? > > Bug 311616 is about that Bringing back the statusbar would be the easiest solution (and keep Evince consistent with other Gnome apps even if a statusbar is kind of ugly). Leaving it off by default might appease those who wanted to remove it entirely and the request does note the fact that it is a useful way to see the real URL behind a link.
Except for URL peeking, does a statusbar have any other advantages? If so, a simple tooltip for URL peeking would be better imho.
We can use the statusbar to make easier to discover some features that are hidden, like attachments.
The statusbar also gives explanations when highlighting menu items. (At least it does so in Epiphany and Evolution.)
Another solution would be to better describe the amazing Alt+Drag capabilities of Gtk/Gnome ;-)
Yeah, I only use Alt-middleclick to resize the windows. Way faster!
That is a great feature (I use it a lot), however.... - it's not obvious - it's hard to use with a touchpad
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. However, you are using a version that is too old and not supported anymore. GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so unfortunately there will not be any bug fixes for the version that you use. By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of GNOME. Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of GNOME.
(In reply to comment #11) You shouldn't close bugs just because they are old. This one is still valid for the latest release!
(In reply to comment #12) Sorry for that, but then, marking it as confirmed ('NEW') would help. :)
Updating versions to match current.
The resize-grip was a workaround in Gtk to deal with the fact that was difficult to put the cursor exactly on the border of a window to perform a resize. This has been since a long time fixed by adding some "invisible" targets to the border of the windows, making it much easier to resize. So I am closing this as WONTFIX