[PATCH] Decorate the main window when run from outside of the install media.

Vratislav Podzimek vpodzime at redhat.com
Wed Jul 9 14:30:02 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 09:34 -0400, David Shea wrote:
> On 07/09/2014 02:59 AM, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 17:03 -0400, David Shea wrote:
> >> This means that live/image/dir installs won't get the full screen
> >> anaconda effect, but it also means that when someone unmaximizes the
> >> window during a live/image/dir install that they can still do something
> >> useful with that window.
> > What usefulness does the decoration bring? Do we want to allow users to
> > resize the window, etc.?
> >
> We don't want users to resize the window, but the problem is that we 
> can't stop them. Taking the GNOME live image as an example, once 
> anaconda is running, you can click on the black bar thing at the top and 
> drag it down and anaconda will unmaximize. Once unmaximized, you can't 
> put it back because it's undecorated so there's nothing to grab on to, 
> and GNOME doesn't have a task bar to right click for a menu with 
> minimize/maximize/etc.
> 
> I think I'll take another look at what can be done with fullscreen mode, 
> though. Maybe we can start anaconda as decorated but fullscreen, let 
> whatever may happen happen if the user un-fullscreens the window, and 
> the switch back to fullscreen on maximize? I'll try and see what happens.
Sounds good to me.

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Vratislav Podzimek

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