Comments about Linux/Ubuntu from a former MS-programmer

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 05:13, john wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:57:30PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > I'm not sure I know what you mean by this - which controls change
> > and disappear when maximizing a window?
>
> I imagine he means that you can't resize a maximised window. This
> has caught me a few times.
>
> "Ok, I want to make this window just a little smaller. Ok, click on
> the edge and drag. Huh didn't it work. Oh well, must have missed
> the edge, I do it again, more carefully this time. Huh? Still
> doesn't work?
>
> ???
>
> Oh, thats right you have to de-maximise a windows before you can
> resize it."
>
> It means a user has to learn about two different types of windows,
> maximised and non-maximised.

Not on KDE. I still have full resize control with maximized windows. 
Maybe there's a setting deep in KDE that I've forgotten all about but 
I don't recall the behaviour ever being different to this.

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