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The point is not to deny your preferences, but rather that they shouldn't be forced upon everyone else, especially when they break decades of proven usability d

• 6510 3y ago
  I disagree, we should force him to use scrollbars until he gets it. Kids these days!
• vidarh 3y ago
  My point is that the "proven" usability design and practice isn't all that proven. There is a whole lot of unexplored or underexplored design space, and when people are complaining about having space to grab a window border away from them due to a tension between competing needs it's worth considering that there are alternatives where that tension just goes away: You only need wider window borders because you've already decided that you need to grab the border, rather than decided you just want an efficient way of moving or resizing the window. Maybe that genuinely is the only option that works for you, but most people haven't tried alternatives. I'll note that lots of user interfaces has this kind of modal mechanism to indicate which class of action you want to take on an object so you don't need to target some tiny visual area, which is always going to be too small for some people nearly no matter how big you make it. We're used to doing that. Most people just don't do it with windows.