Resizing/rotating applets

Jason Stubbs jasonbstubbs at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 11:59:04 CET 2008


On Monday 07 January 2008 03:23:06 JST, Alex Merry wrote:
> At Sunday 06 January 2008 15:23, you wrote:
> > On Monday 07 January 2008 00:19:50 JST, Alex Merry wrote:
> > > At Sunday 06 January 2008 13:08, you wrote:
> > > > Yep, that works much better. With it in the top-left it doesn't feel
> > > > unnatural at all, except... If you resize an applet smaller than the
> > > > height needed for the four handle buttons and then release, hovering
> > > > will give a large handle and moving the mouse several pixels will
> > > > only resize the actual applet by one pixel. This is still much better
> > > > than the reverse though.
> >
> > Any applet that can fit into the panel and is configurable should exhibit
> > the same problem, though.
>
> I'm not sure of the best way to fix this without making resize for other
> applets non-intuitive.

Likewise, I don't really see it as a big problem either as it's relatively 
easy to get the applet back to a regular size. If anything, it's more of 
a "it hurts when I do this" issue. :)

-- 
Jason Stubbs


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