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Bug 654147 - You should be able to horizontally resize docked windows
You should be able to horizontally resize docked windows
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 645153
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-07-07 10:35 UTC by Chris Lord
Modified: 2011-07-07 11:22 UTC
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Description Chris Lord 2011-07-07 10:35:01 UTC 
If you dock a window on the left or right edge of the screen, you should be able to horizontally resize it.

You can hold down alt and resize like that, but that undocks the window (and so you don't get the benefit of the window behaving as if it were maximised on the vertical axis). It's also not as convenient as just being able to resize it like a normal window.
Comment 1 Allan Day 2011-07-07 10:46:02 UTC 
This would be really nice, since it seems typical to want to have one window larger than the other when they are side by side.

Some details that need working out:

 1) What proportion of the screen should windows use when they are snapped in place? Should smaller windows keep their previous width after being snapped, for example?

 2) Should it be possible to snap windows that have a fixed size. I'm mostly thinking of the calculator here; are there any other relevant apps?

 3) How should resizing be accomplished exactly?
Comment 2 Rui Matos 2011-07-07 11:01:27 UTC 
4) Should we try to resize the complementary window?
   There might be more than one, but I guess that a good heuristic is taking the one, if any, that's visible at resizing start without anything covering it.
Comment 3 Florian Müllner 2011-07-07 11:22:26 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 645153 ***