maximized windows are now size-locked

[Fulko Hew]

I recently upgraded my laptop from FC3 to FC4 and I've encountered
a few problems/changes from the previous version that annoy me, and
I'm hoping someone can shed some light.

For the record... I'm using KDE.

Problem #2


I'm an old Unix guy and I liked the window embelishments that
I had with Motif... simple, old, but effective.  So I've configured
KDE's window manager to use the 'CDE' window decoration style.

The maximize button on the title bar has changed its behaviour
from the way it used to work in FC3.

When you push the maximize button, yes it maximizes the window,
but now you can no longer grab a window's border to resize it
differently.  You used to be able to do that.  Now you can only
resize the window again if you re-push the maximize button, to
restore it to its original size.

So the maximize button has now changed from:
 - 'resize the window to the largest possible size'
to
 - 'resize the window to the largest possible size... and
    never let anybody resize it _ever_ again!'

Why can't I resize it anymore.  This was an intuitive and useful
mode of operation.  I'd like it back. Now its lost some flexibility
and has been changed to an aggravating MS Windows style of operation,
(Sorry, I just hate _loosing_ functionality.  "Add as much as you
want, but don't take stuff away"... that code has already been written.)

Any ideas?

TIA
Fulko