I understand what you are saying, but I think that I understand what they were going for. This is a little awkward to explain, but try this:Of course sharing and comparing opinions is only a good thing. I do actually agree with you, otherwise everything would be a mess, also given that in this case we are using a cursor on the screen rather than, let's say, our fingers.
In this case though the matter is that there is nothing beyond the explorer tabs or the start button, they're right at the edge of the screen, so discerning something from the actual nothingness is kinda useless to me. If an element is not at the edge of the screen (the very same explorer tabs when the window is not maximised for example), I completely agree with you
I opened this thread assuming we were talking about the tabs in a maximised window, so the resize handle wouldn't be available anyway. Also, that blank gap above the explorer's tabs doesn't allow to drag down the window when maximised and stuff like that, even worse
@MisterEd I will happily decline your destructive criticism, but thanks for your suggestion anyway
1) Open a File Explorer window (or Edge can be used as well for this example). Set to a specific size and remember roughly the size that you made that window.
2) Click the button at the upper right to maximize the window.
3) As you noted, there is no resize handle when maximized, but note this...
4) Click and continue to hold the mouse button down on an area to the right of the tabs. Drag downward. Note that immediately the windows is transitioned from full screen to the exact same size that it was before you maximized it.
So, I guess that the designers had two options available:
1) They could have made it so that when full screen you could freely resize the window.
2) They could make it so that you could easily revert back to exactly the size it was before maximizing, and once that is done you could freely resize it by then grabbing an edge or corner.
Apparently they elected option 2, but they could just as well have gone the other way.
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