[haiku-development] Re: Change to Default Zoom Behavior
- From: looncraz <looncraz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 22:48:52 -0600
On 11/12/2017 21:52, John Scipione wrote:
I’d like to propose a change to the default Zoom behavior.
The basic idea is that the default zoom would respect Deskbar by not
going in front of it.
This is an age old problem - to give up a significant amount of screen
real estate to not block the Deskbar, or to make the Deskbar somehow
more easily accessible.
There's no universal solution that anyone can agree upon, so it's been
an issue for, literally, a good 20 years.
I'd personally like to see Deskbar get a new vertical mode - icons only,
only as wide as needed to show the time or the widest replicant in the
shelf, and automatically extended to the full height of the Desktop.
Then it would only be natural for the default zoom behavior to respect
Deskbar's location (which isn't as hard to accomplish with a fixed-size
Deskbar as repositioning would only need to be done when Deskbar is moved.).
A setting in Deskbar's preflet to enable or disable this behavior
("Allow windows to block Deskbar" or some such) would be necessary, IMHO.
Aside from the new Deskbar mode I propose, the work would be relatively
simple.
--The loon
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