Comments about Linux/Ubuntu from a former MS-programmer

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 14:05, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> 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?

KDE is so configurable you can get just about any behaviour you want. 
Mine is (obviously) what I mentioned above, and john had something 
different to that.

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Alan McKinnon
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