Re: New toplevel behaviour

[Emmanuel PACAUD <emmanuel pacaud univ-poitiers fr>]

Le mar 11/02/2003 à 03:00, Havoc Pennington a écrit :
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:33:17PM +1300, Mark McLoughlin wrote: 
> > 	7) You can resize the panel by clicking on the edge and
> > 	   dragging. Note, that you can change the width (height for
> > 	   vertical panels) of floating panels. The idea is that
> > 	   floating panels are "packed". I think this is a sensible
> > 	   concept.
> 
> We should avoid this screenshot:
> 
>   http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/pictures/Whoops_I_Did_it_Again.gif
>  (part of http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000059.html)
> 
> Probably it shouldn't be possible to do that. More generally, it
> probably shouldn't be easy to accidentally resize the panel when
> trying to click a launcher or menu.
> 
> One way to approach this (I guess basically what Windows XP does) is
> to have things "locked" by default and you have to unlock them. Or
> just limit resizing the panel to the prefs dialog as it traditionally
> has been.
> 
> Havoc
> 
> 
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