[Kde-games-devel] Size grips

[Matt Williams]

On Monday 18 June 2007 14:12:40 Ian Wadham wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:44 pm, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> > > Now that all our games are going to be resizeable, I think all games
> > > should have a size grip, because:
> >
> > A very good reason against this is that the extra line at the bottom is
> > wasted space and breaks the overall look and feel of games. Games
> > are special in many cases as they try to make you forget a border
> > around the window exists at all.
> >
> > _If_ the game already has a status bar for a different reason, the
> > triangle should be added, though.
>
> Both games I am maintaining have a status bar to show game status
> (who is to move, score, level, whatever).  The size widgets actually
> make the status bars look better, imo, because the item at the right
> is indented a bit from the extreme right.  However, I shall be removing
> the size grips because no other KDE apps have them.  Pity.  They
> make the resizing operation easier for the user, imo.

As far as I know there's nothing in the HIG about size grips but I definitely 
think that they're a good thing to have. It makes resizing the window so much 
easier and can only be good for usability. I'd say keep them Ian and maybe we 
should find out if the usability working group has any opinion.

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Matt Williams
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