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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Disabling Oxygen's window dragging for specific QWidgets?
From:       Nathan Bradshaw <nathanlbradshaw () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-05-17 12:42:58
Message-ID: BANLkTi=4kuehXL9tPj9-i+373d_r8zdF4g () mail ! gmail ! com
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Right after you point to the ones that contra-indicate it.

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Christophe Giboudeaux
<cgiboudeaux@gmx.com>wrote:

> On Tuesday 17 May 2011 09:00:10 Hugo Pereira Da Costa wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> [...]
> >
> > Some of the reasons justifying the feature have actually already been
> > discussed in this thread (by Martin), but must have been lost in
> > translations:
> >
> > - it fits perfectly within oxygen, which makes no distinction between
> > window decoration and window content (and does so since day one)
> > - it gives a use to the many empty areas kde applications have
> > - it improves user experience (thinks the designer and I agree with him)
> > - it is far more discoverable that the Alt+drag feature
> >
> > The reasons why it is superior than the Alt+drag feature
> > - you don't need to press Alt (sorry to state the obvious)
> > - it only works on *empty areas* whereas Alt works everywhere (that does
> > not actually make it superior, just different)
> > - it is far more discoverable that the Alt+drag feature
> > - it improves user experience
> >
>
> [...]
>
> >
> > Please provide numbers (or at least application names) to back-up your
> > statement.
> > I can easily cite 26 applications which I use dayly and with which there
> > is no issue.
> >
>
> Can you provide the user survey results or even better, the link to the
> kde-
> usability discussion about this major behaviour change, please ?
>
>
> Christophe
>
>
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Right after you point to the ones that contra-indicate it.<br><br><div \
class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Christophe Giboudeaux <span \
dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:cgiboudeaux@gmx.com">cgiboudeaux@gmx.com</a>&gt;</span> \
wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px \
#ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Tuesday 17 May 2011 09:00:10 Hugo Pereira Da Costa \
wrote:<br> <br>
Hi,<br>
<br>
[...]<br>
<div class="im">&gt;<br>
&gt; Some of the reasons justifying the feature have actually already been<br>
&gt; discussed in this thread (by Martin), but must have been lost in<br>
&gt; translations:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; - it fits perfectly within oxygen, which makes no distinction between<br>
&gt; window decoration and window content (and does so since day one)<br>
&gt; - it gives a use to the many empty areas kde applications have<br>
&gt; - it improves user experience (thinks the designer and I agree with him)<br>
&gt; - it is far more discoverable that the Alt+drag feature<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; The reasons why it is superior than the Alt+drag feature<br>
&gt; - you don&#39;t need to press Alt (sorry to state the obvious)<br>
&gt; - it only works on *empty areas* whereas Alt works everywhere (that does<br>
&gt; not actually make it superior, just different)<br>
&gt; - it is far more discoverable that the Alt+drag feature<br>
&gt; - it improves user experience<br>
&gt;<br>
<br>
</div>[...]<br>
<div class="im"><br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Please provide numbers (or at least application names) to back-up your<br>
&gt; statement.<br>
&gt; I can easily cite 26 applications which I use dayly and with which there<br>
&gt; is no issue.<br>
&gt;<br>
<br>
</div>Can you provide the user survey results or even better, the link to the \
kde-<br> usability discussion about this major behaviour change, please ?<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
Christophe<br>
</font><br><br>
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