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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: What do people think of this proposed feature?
From:       "John Tapsell" <johnflux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-02-11 8:42:50
Message-ID: 43d8ce650702110042m4655616bm5fa4abd91d80f1be () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hey,

  That sounds really cool actually.  One reason not to though is that
I personally rarely move dividers around.  An app that requires you to
is probably badly designed.
  So while it's neat, I don't know if it's worth adding since it won't
be used much  (and users will hit it by accident)

John

On 11/02/07, Christopher Layne <clayne@anodized.com> wrote:
> As we know, alt+Lclick(hold) allows one to drag a window, and
> alt+Rclick(hold)
> click allows one to resize a window. Extremely useful, extremely valued
> (to me atleast).
>
> What about the following:
>
> shift+alt+Lclick(hold) allows one to drag a contextual area. Now this I
> don't
> know how useful it would be. I could see it in a similar context of moving
> a toolbar created region to another allowed area (think kdevelop tabs).
>
> shift+alt+Rclick(hold) allows one to resize a contextual area. This I could
> see as very useful. What I mean by contextual area are for example: frame
> or window dividers. AFAIK, one has to currently select the divider itself
> and move it horizontally or vertically. I think it would be more efficient
> to just shift+alt+Rclick the divided area and allow one to quickly resize
> horizontally or vertically depending on how the divided area was setup.
>
> Thoughts?
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