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metacity-2.18.0-2.fc7 My main panel is at the bottom of my screen. If I grab hold of the lower edge of a window and pull down to resize it, metacity lets me resize it all the way to the bottom of the screen, even though that leaves me with part of the window obscured by the panel. Correct behavior would be to stop the resize at the edge of the panel.
Why do you think that would be correct ? Metacity also lets you move a window partially offscreen underneath the bottom panel. The constraint that metacity is implementing here is to keep the title part of the window on screen, vertically. I don't consider this a bug.
It's a bug because it's (in my opinion) completely non-intuitive, because it makes it impossible to grab the border I just resized if I let go over it so that I can resize it again, and because it's now how the two UIs from which GNOME clearly derives so much, Windows and OS X, behave. I'd venture to say that the folks at Microsoft and Apple who spent oodles and oodles of dollars on usability studies for the UIs are probably a pretty good authority to rely on for things like this.
Sigh. Two typos: "if I let go over it" => "if I let go OF it" and "it's now how" => "it's NOT how".
If you feel strongly about this, please file an upstream bug and see if you can convince the metacity maintainers to change this behaviour. We are not going to carry a patch for this.
Upstream agrees that this is a bug. See the external reference I just added.
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Still a bug.
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Fixed in rawhidwe
Not fixed in Rawhide. Not sure why you marked it so.
I can't reproduce this. If I grab the bottom window edge and drag down, it stops at the bottom panel.
For me, it doesn't stop at the bottom panel. So, what is different between your environment and mine? How can we figure that out? I am running everything current from rawhide.
Do you have autohide set? When I set autohide, then indeed the lower edge of the window won't move below the (mostly) hidden panel. But I don't usually use autohide, and I'm talking about the bottom edge happily resizing to below the upper edge of the non-hidden panel.
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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
We're not going to make changes here independent of upstream.