The reasons why I personnally hate this maximizing thing are these ones:
- I generally have kind of portrait oriented documents best viewed with
tall viewport (not wide)
- my screen is too wide but that's ok to view 2 documents side by side, or
1 document with 2 pages side by side alternatively.
- i often resize/move the windows to obtain side by side view (for
comparison, drag and drop etc...)
alas, since my windows are tall, they are most of the time near top, and i
more than often have to undo the UN-INTENDED maximization.

There are at least two other ways to maximize the window, so this gesture
is never going to be on purpose from myself, if only I knew how to disable
it :(


2016-01-11 22:39 GMT+01:00 Jakob Reschke <jakob.reschke at student.hpi.de>:

> In Windows, I tend to like both maximizing a window when it is dragged
> to the top of the screen and tiling a window when dragged to the left
> or right edge of the screen. Not sure why I find the first one more
> intuitive than double clicking the title bar or the window decoration
> button for it. Maybe it's that gross motion thing Chris mentioned.
> Just today, I came to dislike once again that the tiling does not work
> on the inner edges in a dual screen setup. Though, it is possible that
> I would change my mind if it worked and it would trigger all the time.
> Anyway, it is achievable with Win-key+Left/Right.
>
> On the other hand, I am not so keen on maximizing a window in only one
> direction (vertically or horizontally) if I drag an edge of the window
> to the edge of the screen. Windows has that for the vertical
> direction.
>
> But I cannot remember the last time I wanted to maximize a
> SystemWindow in Squeak... usually I find screen space to be more
> precious (scarce?) here because there is no web browser or dedicated
> text editor window, but rather a plethora of smaller windows floating
> around, each of them preferably only one click away. And I like to
> spare a hole somewhere to access the world menu... Maybe these habits
> are also a result of the lack of an Alt+Tab or Exposé like feature by
> default.
>
> 2016-01-11 22:01 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Cellier <
> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:
> > I wanted to comment that there's even more upsetting: the maximize
> feature
> > of windows 7 when dragging a window near display edge.
> > But as long as we can disable the preference, it's ok for me.
> >
> > 2016-01-11 20:20 GMT+01:00 Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> Bernhard, please don't take this as offense but just as someone who's
> >> interested in UI design -- I'm curious what people find to like about
> >> this feature.  I myself was so disappointed when Ubuntu did this to
> >> Unity because being able to grab a window edge and slam the mouse to
> >> the edge of the screen is an easy gross-motor gesture that facilitates
> >> efficient window management; affording expansion in the desired
> >> dimensions, and no expansion where it isn't desired.  However, with
> >> this feature the user is now forced to "be careful" when dragging
> >> their window edges (don't get too close to the edge!) and so what was
> >> a gross-motor became a fine-motor AND their mind is distracted this
> >> having to wreste with the UI, because they want to make use of their
> >> screen real-estate but, at least in Unity, when you get within 4
> >> pixels of the edge, SNAP.  Now its covering many other windows I
> >> didn't want covered, whilst presenting vast swaths of useless
> >> whitespace (because its too big).
> >>
> >> I never much liked Operation...   :)
> >>
> >>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6MAkLJ79LE
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Dear all,
> >> >
> >> > I implemented a feature which some of you may know from Windows. When
> a
> >> > SystemWindow is dragged to one of the edges it is resized to that
> half of
> >> > the display. In addition, when it is dragged to one of the corners it
> is
> >> > resized to that quadrant of the display. See the following packages
> in the
> >> > Inbox:
> >> > - GraphicsTests-bp.39
> >> > - Graphics-bp.321
> >> > - Morphic-bp.1064
> >> > In order to use it you need to enable the preference Drag To Edges in
> >> > the Preference Browser, or just do:
> >> > SystemWindow dragToEdges: true
> >> >
> >> > If you have time to try it out, let me know what you think.
> >> >
> >> > - Bernhard
> >>
> >
>
>
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