Re: Terminal view alignment at bottom might be better

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 23, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> On 06/22/2013 08:09 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> On Jun 23, 2013, at 3:21 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> [snip]
>>> I suppose there are two ways to address this:
>>> 
>>> 1) Allow alignment at the top left, but make sure there is no fractional 
>>> line at the bottom.  Instead, allow there to be a fractional line of white 
>>> space at the bottom.
>>> 
>>> 2) Alignment at the bottom left, which means that the top of the terminal 
>>> window is where there will be a fractional line.
>>> 
>>> I kind of prefer the second behavior for the reasons that the top of the 
>>> window isn't where the user's eyes are drawn when typing and also a 
>>> fractional line at the top does give the impression that the text is 
>>> scrolling upward and there might be additional lines scrolled past the top 
>>> of the window.
>>> 
>>> Dan
>> 
>> Maybe a 3rd?
>> 
>> 3) Snap the command window height to an integer number of lines?
>> 
>> Don't most (all?) terminal windows work that way?
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> I suppose that is possible.  I don't think we could snap the outer limits of 
> the terminal window because that is embedded in the dock aligned with other 
> windows.  The inner limits perhaps.
> 
> Dan

Yeah.  I think it will be necessary to change the height of the entire window, 
and/or the window's border.

Ben