Pop-up window with WSL distros does not resize well

[wlamee]

The popup window with DSL distros out of the system tray is a nice idea, but the window seems to have a few issues:

• The first unnamed column had a '*' or '#' at one distro, what does that mean? Does that indicate which is the default distro?
• The window resizes very badly: Both horizontally as well as vertically it is possible to make the window so small it becomes useless. The four buttons underneath the list component can easily be made invisible.
• The components inside the window do not seem to resize at all: The list component showing all the available distros does not resize along with it's parent window. Besides this, the non-resizable list component has a capacity much beyond than the number of different WSL distros most people will have and thus takes up a lot of unused screen real estate to keep the buttons visible.

[derekbsnider]

Thanks for the feedback! I didn't realize the window doesn't resize properly, as I guess I never tried to resize it. I actually thought that I had set it to be a fixed size, and not resizable. Is resizability an important feature for you, or would it work to disable resizing? Yes, the "*" column shows the default distribution, this is the same output that the wsl.exe command provides. Perhaps a hover hint would be useful here?

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[derekbsnider]

The Cancel button just makes the dialog window go away (the same as closing the window with the X in the corner).

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[wlamee]

Resizing windows (or restricting the capability to do so, if you think you must) is always important. At all times the functionality of the application should not be impacted by resizing - so the user should not be able to reduce functionality of the application by doing something as seemingly innocuous as resizing its window. Screen real estate is to be considered very precious and by definition limited, combined with (again) different people managing their screen space differently. Making your application properly resizable very quickly takes time and effort, but if you get it right you will end up with a sleeker app that more people will be happy to use.