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Subject:    Re: [opensuse-kde] Move windows by dragging contents
From:       todd rme <toddrme2178 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-01-20 19:50:10
Message-ID: AANLkTinw0JDT0m9sM0By3Bw+MywLBDQm0AsQuNS4aon2 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2011/1/20 Karsten König <remur@gmx.net>:
> Am Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2011, 15:12:09 schrieb Alvin Beach:
>> On January 20, 2011 9:59:19 am Martin Schlander wrote:
>> > Torsdag den 20. januar 2011 14:36:49 skrev Will Stephenson:
>> > [snip]
>> >
>> > It's the same behaviour as OSX afaik, and we all know that everything
>> > Apple do is perfect in every way ;-)
>> >
>> > Joking aside, I don't see how this feature can do any harm, and for a lot
>> > of people it's an usability improvement - i.e. they don't have to be so
>> > precise on the mouse and don't need to understand the difference between
>> > windeco and window background in order to drag stuff.
>> >
>> > I'm fairly indifferent, with a slight leaning towards keeping the feature
>> > enabled - and thus sticking to the upstream default.
>>
>> FWIW, the reason I wanted to disable it was that I was often moving windows
>> around when I just wanted to resize the panes inside a window. This happens
>> if I do not precisely drag the divider (between two panes) but rather a
>> few pixels above the divider. What happens in this case is that the whole
>> window moves (often un-maximises and moves). Personally, I found it
>> frustrating.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alvin
>
> I haven't noticed that until now, but I agree this is irritating, especially
> when one doesn't know to just move the window to the top to fullscreen it once
> more.
>
> I always use alt + drag to move a window, as a windows user I would only find
> it by accident, the established move window workflow is the top bar =/
>
> Do any of you longtime users really drag windows around by finding an
> background of the window instead of using alt+drag?

I am doing it more and more now.  It required consciously thinking
about it initially, but it is getting more natural as I do it more and
more.
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