Comments about Linux/Ubuntu from a former MS-programmer

[Eric Dunbar]

On 11/04/06, Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 03:28, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > Windows and Linux have a _bad_ window resizing paradigm in that you
> > can zoom a window to maximum screen size (good), but all of a
> > sudden the controls for the window change and disappear. There's no
> > correspondence between before and after.
>
> I don't know what you mean here - on my KDE 3.5.1 a fully maximized
> window is a big version of a regular window. Or did you mean
> full-screen (window content occupies all screen area, no window
> decorations, appropriate for a video player)?

Nope, I meant maximized window, not the full screen (a la FireFox
F11). Perhaps KDE doesn't do the annoying Windows thing of changing
modes after maximizing the window?