Implement KDE's workaround for GTK3/4 to support "Fitts' Law" (i.e. clicking the very top-right pixel of your screen should close a maximized window) | UPDATE: or the official GTK4 fix #113
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UPDATE: Within the last year, at long last, this has finally been fixed upstream: ...but, uh, Mint doesn't even use GTK4 for anything, right? |
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UPDATE: Within the last year, at long last, this has finally been fixed upstream:
...but, uh, Mint doesn't even use GTK4 for anything, right?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts's_law
This is most easily confirmed via the program "Archive Manager"—simply maximize its program window and try clicking on the very top-right pixel of your screen (spoiler alert: it won't work).
Note that this does not impact all programs (e.g. Nemo properly obeys "Fitts' Law").
Here's the 7.5-year old GTK issue on the subject that, thus far, hasn't really ever gone anywhere:
And the relevant KDE merge request (if it can be called a "request" anymore considering it's been merged) from just a few months ago where they discovered a work-around that could be implemented on their side of things:
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