2013/1/31 Andrea Corbellini <corbellini.and...@gmail.com>: > Dear Aleve, > > Please, do not modify this old bug. You are wasting contributors' time. > > As John Lea has already pointed out, the issue you are describing has > already been reported as bug #717444. > > The reason why this bug should remain closed is that a fix has already > been written for it. If you are still affected by the bug, then the root > cause may be totally different. 'Symptoms' and 'causes' are totally > different concepts, and for the propuse of this bug tracker we only look > at causes (because we fix the causes, not the symptoms). > > I'm sorry that you are having difficulties, but this is not the right > place to discuss. > > ** Changed in: unity > Status: New => Fix Released >
Dear Andrea: This bug is NOT fixed in Unity, so "Fix Released" is a plain lie. I kindly suggest you change the status ASAP. The title and description of this bug define perfectly well what happens not just in my system, but in many others. As a matter of fact, I have read people complaining about the reverse of my own situation: they can grab the resizing handlers easily at the top and the left, but not at the right and bottom. Resizing handlers are definitely broken in Unity. Do you prefer to open a new bug with exactly the same title and description as this one but referred only to Unity? Be my guest. But that's exactly the case. The title and description perfectly match what's going on TODAY on Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10. The bug suggested by John Lea is the one which should be closed, deleted or marked as a duplicate, since it's just a particular case of this bug (it refers ONLY to the top handler). In no way it defines COMPLETELY what I and others are experiencing regarding windows resizing in Unity. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to light-themes in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160311 Title: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult Status in Ayatana Design: Fix Released Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Fix Released Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in Unity: Fix Released Status in Unity 2D: Invalid Status in “light-themes” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: This bug is fixed in unity-3d since ubuntu 11.04. It still exists in unity-2d and will never be fixed as unity-2d is no longer supported since ubuntu 12.10 (see comment #343). ************* This should mostly be fixed for Natty and might get backported to earlier releases as well. For Precise (12.04) this is again broken for unity-2d (as of 17.7.2012 unity-2d 5.12.0-0ubuntu1.1). Note that if the window has a scrollbar, you can grab that to resize the window. If not, you are stuck with the 1px border. Workaround: NONE KNOWN (see comment 320)? ************* *************Blueprint for Natty, Ubuntu 11.04: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/packageselection- dx-n-resizing-windows Work items1 * Make sure the new resize grip fits in current applications; doesn't interfere with anything. We should make some noise about this during the Natty cycle so people keep their eyes open and file bugs. 2 * Invisible window resize area - around 3px invisible area to allow resize on all sides. ************* Working grip backported to gtk2 already available in ppa : https://launchpad.net/~bratsche/+archive/gtk ************* Workaround for Compiz/Unity: Alt+Middlemousebutton resizes a window most comfortably. Workaround: Edit /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/metacity-1/metacity- theme-1.xml. Set the following values in frame_geometry_normal as desired: <distance name="left_width" value="3"/> <distance name="right_width" value="3"/> <distance name="bottom_height" value="3"/> ************ Binary package hint: metacity - The issue has been an issue for users (especially of large) screens for several releases- Trackpad users seem to be particularly impacted by this- The issue appears to have been significantly aggravated in Lucid by changing the border width from 3 pixels to 1 pixel The window borders in metacity are far too thin to be used for comfortable window resizing, and resize handles are not available in all applications (or even most). In fact, of all the windows I have open right now, not a single one of them has a resize handle. The result is that I get a lot of "misses" when I try to drag a window border, which usually results in my clicking on the wrong window altogether. The best fix for this usability bug is to create an "invisible" region around each non-maximized window about 4px thick that can be used for resizing (in addition to the visible border). Or perhaps there should be a border thickness option on the System > Preferences > Windows dialog (although the default thickness should still be increased considerably). Ideally all windows would also have a resize handle but I realize that these have to be application controlled (at least that seems to be the position of the metacity team). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/160311/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
