On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In my opinion, one of the most annoying, obnoxious, and irritating behaviors > in Gnome 3 is its in-your-face maximization of the window I'm dragging, when > I move it partly off to the side of the screen. When I'm dragging the > window, and the pointer reaches the edge of the screen, Gnome decides to > maximize the whole thing. It appears to think that I'm trying to tile the > window against one of the screen's edges, so why not maximize it? > > That never made any sense to me, and I always thought that this was a stupid > thing to do. But one thing that always puzzled me, and I couldn't figure it > out, is how someone could've even gotten this kind of an idea in the first > place. To me, it just came completely out of the left field. Yes, when I'm > dragging a window partially off screen, that's really exactly what I'm > trying to accomplish: I want to maximize it. Huh? > > I often move windows partially off the screen when I want to recover some > real estate for something else. So now, instead of staying, inobtrusively, > off to the side, the damn thing takes over the entire display. It's exactly > the opposite of what I wanted to accomplish. Instead of gaining empty screen > space, the window I just dragged just takes it over. > > I now have to retrain myself to drop the window before my mouse pointer goes > all the way to the edge. It's annoying. It's irritating. And it bugs the > hell out of me. > > But I was always curious about the thought process that went into this. > Where? Why? How? It just seems so naturally wrong, but someone must've > thought that this is what the user really wanted to do, and I was always > curious to figure out how that thought process developed. And I'm wondering > whether anyone else was wondering the same thing. > > Because I just figured out exactly what happened here. Which left field this > bizarre behaviour came from. > > My new employer gave me a work laptop, loaded with Windows 7. > > This is what Windows 7 does. This user behavior is new in Windows 7. > > So, naturally, Gnome must ape Windows, and imitate every stupid thing that > Windows does. > > Sigh. > I like this behavior, is like having a dual head!. And I saw it first on Linux Mint 11, with Gnome 2... so the windows rant is just plain stupid It seems you do not move the windows with alt... > > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > -- OS: http://fedoraproject.org/es/ - http://www.linuxmint.com/ Graficos: http://www.blender.org - http://www.gimp.org Musica: http://www.jamendo.com - http://www.openoctave.org/ Recetas: http://www.recetas-sencillas.com/ - Politica: http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/ - http://www.gnu.org/ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
