GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 308293
maximize button should do vertical and horizontal with middle and right mouse click
Last modified: 2006-10-01 19:10:17 UTC
most other window managers allow for maximize vertical and horizontal toggling, as well as full toggling, depending on the mouse button used to click the maximize button. a left click maintains the current behaviour, but a middle click will toggle vertical maximization and a right click will toggle horizontal maximization. Other information: i actually commented on this in bug 308292, but figured i should make a proper request in it's own bug
In addition to this (useful) behaviour, please also consider that the default maximise action is becoming increasingly inappropriate. As screen sizes become larger, it no longer always makes sense to maximise horizontally. For example, on the desktop I am writing this, I have open Galeon, Emacs, XChat and Gnome-Terminal Windows. All are maximised vertically, but none are maximised horizontally, because this way they are maximally readable: adding extra horizontal space makes them less readable (lines are too long). For other applications e.g. graphics viewers, this might not be as appropriate, but for text-oriented applications, e.g. editors, previewers, browsers, having maximise only increase the vertical dimension would be rather nice. (I now never use the maximise button: I have to resize manually due to not liking the default behaviour.) This vertial-only behaviour is also the default on MaxOS X. Regards, Roger
This bug was first, but the other one has a patch. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 358674 ***