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The Grumpy Editor's Moblin review

The Grumpy Editor's Moblin review

Posted Nov 25, 2009 21:16 UTC (Wed) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Moblin review

a dialog whose buttons are below the bottom of the window, which, in turn, refuses to let the user resize it

One of the more annoying UI bugs, even on desktops. There was a news item here a couple of days ago about developers should pay attention to the different environment of mobile devices. The screen size is one such difference, it's really stupid when the windows are bigger then the screen.


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The Grumpy Editor's Moblin review

Posted Nov 26, 2009 7:45 UTC (Thu) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link]

While generally very true, this isn't really the case here: Take a look at the screenshot.

It's just fixed-size dialog, that has the wrong size.

The Grumpy Editor's Moblin review

Posted Nov 28, 2009 9:27 UTC (Sat) by magnus (subscriber, #34778) [Link]

It would be nice if window managers designed for netbooks had special support for this case, for example automatically shifting the window when you move the mouse to off-screen parts of the window.

Of course, it would be even nicer if this never happened but sometimes you need to run old programs and you can't rewrite them all..

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