Adwaita window corner sizes

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Hi,

In libadwaita’s development branch, the windows corner size have been significantly increased.
Now we have to move the mouse cursor quite far away from the corner to see be able to resize the window, which is a bit disturbing…

In the last month I have found myself countless times moving my mouse around the corners, trying to get the resize cursor, before remembering I had now to move it far away to get it.

To illustrate the problem, see below in pink the zone where the resize is possible, and in blue the zone where users instinctively try to grab the corner:

corners

With the old size (left) there is an overlap, but with the new increased size (right), the zones don’t intersect anymore.

Is there anything we can do about that?
was is really necessary to make corners so big in the first place?

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Somebody could add rounded corners to the resize handles. The code for that lives in gtkwindow.c

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Designers wanted to make buttons more round and window needs to match that.

Admittedly I never noticed that the resizing didn’t match it - I already do it outside the window as it’s same for edges, but now that you’re saying it I do indeed see that it doesn’t match

And yeah, making the resize area handle it sounds right here

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Thanks for the explanations!

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I’ve fixed this here: window: Handle resize corners better (!8101) · Merge requests · GNOME / gtk · GitLab

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Wow, thanks a lot! :slight_smile: