[Kde-games-devel] Size grips

[Luciano Montanaro]

Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> On Monday 18 June 2007, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote:
>> Well, Matt is right, I think we should consult some usability person
>> (Aaron, are you reading this?) before adding sizegrips throughout
>> kdegames...
> 
> either add it to all or none for consistency. and yes, size grips are a
> bigger and more obvious target to hit.
> 

Hi all. I'm not subscibed to the list, though I read it occasionally.

I've found this conversation, and I'd like to add my opinion.

I'm not fond of the idea of having the size grip in-window, basically 
because that's normally handled by the window manager (and because it looks 
awful :-P).

Anyway, if the consensus is that we want the size grip, I think it should 
not be handled per application; either we enable it (in KApplication?) 
everywhere, or we do not. 

I still hope this could be offered as a configuration (maybe in the style 
preferences?) option. It may be useful to enable it, if "other" desktop 
environments do so too.

By the way, the Oxygen window decoration seem to have large enough resize 
grips. So I'm not sure this feature is really needed.

One Idea I have ad at a time was to have a resize button in the window 
titlebar - instead of dragging the window from it's bottom-right corner, 
you could resize from it's top-right corner. Some of the KWin decoration 
let you have the resize button, but the feature implementation is half 
baked... I could work on that, if people think that's useful (but I'm not 
very confident they will).

Ciao,
Luciano