Re: Dangerous default placement of close button

on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 02:05:18AM +0000, Carl Worth wrote:
> 
> Am I the only one with sloppy stylus usage? I find it very hard to hit
> the next button, (eg. the ">"), without often bumping the close
> button, (eg. the "X"). Which naturally has catastrophic results.

I dont seem to have this problem, though I have heard of this before -
maybe some peoples touchscreens are more sensitive / precise than
others...?

Heres some possible ( though not that great ) solutions;

  - Try re calibrating your touchscreen.
  - The buttons give feed back when pressed, if a button is held down
    and the pointer then moved off the button before release then the
    button wont be 'activated' - not really a solution I know, but a get
    out if thing go bad. 
  - Rip open the source and increase the BUTTON_SPACING define in
    theme.h. If people think its a good Idea I can increase this value
    anyway to make things a little safer. 
  - use a theme with BIG buttons.
  - use the drop down menu to navigate. 

> It seems that th default button placement should put these on opposite
> ends of the titlebar.
> 
> I haven't look deeply, but is this by chance configurable? (Not that
> it necessarily should be, mind you -- just curious).
> 

In the 0.2 'line' of matchbox I'll be rewriting the themeing
completely. It'll work like by dynamically loadable theme engines ( like
gtk-theme-engines ) so depending on the resources your target machine
has you'll be able to use the appropriate theme engine. Obviously
these theme engines need to allow much more flexibily that what
current available so everyones tastes are catered for.

Many thanks for the input;

  -- mallum