March 18, 2009 – 12:00 am
GNOME bug 107012 brings up the perennial question of SVG support in themes, otherwise known as Vectacity. We’ve already covered this in a few places, but I think it may be worth mentioning here the two main reasons SVG-based themes is a good thing (there may be any number of other reasons they’re a bad [...]
March 17, 2009 – 12:00 am
Did you know that the xrandr extension uses a 16-bit quantity to store the millimetre width of the screen? That gives a maximum screen width under X of about 65½ metres. Granted, this is about three times wider than a good-sized cinema screen, but it’s certainly a limit to try for. Imagine, you could get [...]
Some of the enhancements which have been suggested need some sort of hint to be set on windows. For example, the recent squib about a special style for warning windows could only work if warning windows were marked in some way, and at present they’re not. Similarly, drag and drop can only work better if [...]
March 16, 2009 – 12:00 am
GNOME bug 102548 suggests that warning dialogues should have a special frame style, and it’s suggested that this could look like safety tape wrapped around the edge. This is not unlike the special frame style suggested here for root windows. However, while there’s already a way for the window manager to tell whether a window [...]
March 15, 2009 – 12:00 am
In GNOME bug 140362, someone requests the ability to maximise one side of a window to the edge of the screen by double-clicking the frame. Thomas provides a patch, there is some discussion, and the reporter realises that Metacity already does most of what is wanted through the ability to resize in one direction only [...]
March 14, 2009 – 12:00 am
Two rather similar squibs today . GNOME bug 96348 calls for an animation to be shown when restoring (unminimising) a window, as we already do when minimising. I can’t see any problem with this idea . GNOME bug 97288, however, would like all new windows to have the opportunity to come from somewhere. If you open a [...]
March 13, 2009 – 12:00 am
In GNOME bug 94111, Havoc points out that some of the macros we use for checking certain features of windows are incorrect. Fields with names like has_foo_func denote whether the window gives us permission to foo it. Macros with names like ALLOWS_foo take these into consideration and also whether the operation is possible right now [...]
March 12, 2009 – 12:00 am
When GNOME bug 86590 was born, it was a request to make workspaces switch instantaneously when you panned around them using the workspace switcher with ctrl+alt+arrow. Then that was fixed, and someone else complained that it was too slow, and inconsistent with the alt+tab popup, which doesn’t switch until you let go of alt. They [...]
March 11, 2009 – 12:00 am
At present all lines are drawn at the same thickness. However, some people such as partially-sighted users require particularly thick lines . GNOME bug 86040 suggests that the line format be extended to give the width as a fraction of the current icon height. Since this is a change to the format, it must appear [...]
In GNOME bug 80984 (closely related to GNOME bug 76672), someone is asking for the window manager to help out with drag-and-drop. The problem is that a drag-and-drop operation should not raise the window it begins in, because raising that window could obscure the window you’re planning to drop the object into. This is a [...]
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