On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:19:42 +1200, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Clemens <clemens.zeidler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:cool, whats about the idea to give the window an optimal width?, i.e. thewidth of a web page, like tracker zooms to the best size to display all files.It is not hard to manually resize a browser window to get it big enough to display a web page without horizontal scrollbars. It is quite hard to manually maximize a window. So I think that is the best default behavior for most people. Or to really fix this and similar issues Haiku needs to add a maximize button to the window decorator, and then zoom can do what you suggest.
I think a fix zoom width would be fine. The old BeIDE editor zoomed to a fixed window size and I really miss that feature in Pe. With a 80 char limit such a fix width is quite straight forward. In a browser it is a bit more difficult to find the right size.
However, think its not a big deal to find a good size where most web pages are looking fine. Most pages have a fix width anyway (that is for readability reasons, e.g. http://www.nzherald.co.nz). Maybe there is even a semi standard for such a web page width that could be used?
A fix zoom width would even make simple / badly designed pages like http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/ more readable.
Your argument that manually maximizing is difficult is right. Because of that I propose to move the window to the top screen border, give it the maximize height but only a reasonable large width. If necessary move the window to the left. What do you think?
Regards,
Clemens
