Bug 689012

Summary: Very hard to resize a window.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: gnome-shellAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: awilliam, djuran, gr3yfox.fw, hdegoede, maxamillion, otaylor, samkraju, walters, walters
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2011-03-18 19:31:12 UTC
Description of problem:

There is only about a 4 pixel border on windows to resize them.
This makes resizing by (eg.) dragging the left border very hard.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gnome-shell-2.91.91-2.fc15.x86_64

Comment 1 Colin Walters 2011-03-18 19:49:30 UTC
See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644874

Comment 2 Hans de Goede 2011-03-25 15:08:17 UTC
I was about to file the same bug, then I found this one. +1, resizing windows is quite hard, this is more or less a serious usability issue and should be fixed before F-15. Proposing this as F15 blocker

Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2011-04-15 18:49:36 UTC
Discussed at 2011-04-15 blocker review meeting. This does not seem to hit any release criteria. It also doesn't seem to be a regression compared to F14 (or any previous release): on F14, the resize handle area is just the same (four pixels), I tested this. Windows also have resize handles at lower right hand corner. The issue could also be addressed with an update. So, we agreed not to take this as a blocker or NTH.

(seems there may be a bug with GTK+ 2 apps not having resize handles lower-right, but that could be tracked separately).



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Comment 4 Adam Williamson 2011-04-15 18:51:00 UTC
actually, that GTK+ 2 thing is probably a red herring - we noticed virt-manager and Firefox, but virt-manager doesn't have a handle in F14 either and Firefox is probably due to changes to the status bar between FF3 and FF4.



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Comment 5 Riccardo 2011-08-06 01:19:50 UTC
I totally agree with Richard, I find it very frustrating trying to resize windows. I wrote "trying" intentionally, because usually I just give up. It's the only thing that makes me really think about removing gnome-shell and returning to Xfce.

Comment 6 David Juran 2011-08-11 11:25:40 UTC
Looking at the upstream bug report, some patches where just pushed to the git master (see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644930#c183 for details). If someone who experiences this bug would have the opportunity to test those patches, please make a comment here on whether they solve the problem.

Comment 7 Riccardo 2012-07-16 15:20:53 UTC
It has been fixed since some months ago, I think this bug report could be closed right now.

Comment 8 Adam Williamson 2012-07-16 16:12:09 UTC
Richard, are you happy with things now?

Comment 9 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-07-16 16:13:25 UTC
Closing as per comment 7.