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On Monday 19 October 2015 15:58:32 K-J LibreOffice wrote:
Hi all,
starting with a discussion on German ml [1] about different sizes on the
dialog box of "Export as PDF" in different UIs (bug 95178 [2]) Thorsten
recognizes that 275 dialog boxes aren't resizable, others are resizable.

Is there any reason why they aren't resizable or can they be switched to
resizable by default?

[1] http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/de/discuss/msg18978.html
[2] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95178
[3] http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/de/discuss/msg18985.html

Confirmation dialogs are never resizable on Windows (although I don''t find a 
guideline for this statement right now [1]). And why should a user want to 
resize the "Export to PDF" dialog? It adds a lot of complexity to the dialog 
since min/max width/height have to be considered carefully, a grid layout 
needs to be added, the properties have to be stored (per 
user/workstation/company?) etc. And imagine the dialog, which either suddenly 
grows in height when the width is being reduced or adds a scrollbar. So I 
would rather turn the question into "Why is xy resizable?" (xy = options, for 
instance; also the inbuilt file dialog is resizable but in this case for good 
reasons). Anyway, good question for the guidelines. :-)

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn742499%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

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