On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:17 -0400, bulia byak wrote:

I don't like this at all. The left end of the statusbar has become very crowded, noisy, and hard to make out.

Agreed; I'm not happy with it. But having zoom in that corner wasn't working out either.

Also, the rationale given for this change sounds very strange. Window decorations must never cover the window contents.

And yet they often do. Some WMs and themes put resize handles there.

They are always on the outside. If this is not the case for your WM, I think it's the WM that needs fixing, not Inkscape.

I tend to avoid WM themes which do this. However, on some platforms (e.g. OS X -- see attached screenshot[1]) people have no choice.

Can you please consider reverting this change?

Perhaps you could ask Steve Jobs to please consider reverting the superimposed drag decorations in his WM? :)

Seriously, I've been trying to think of a better alternative layout, but while the alternative I committed is ugly, at least it works for OS X users.

One possible solution which has occurred to me since would be to put the zoom widget back at the end, but add our own resize handle beyond it. There's no harm in one resize handle getting covered by another.

What do you think?

-mental

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[1] the inset with Inkscape is with an older version of Inkscape, as that's all I had handy on the Mac at the moment. The resize grip is completely covering the letters "elec".