On 10/9/06, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 02:31 -0400, Philip Ganchev wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a suggestion for GTK. It seems that the idea has not been > > discussed before. > > > > I would like to have panels draggable, similar to Apple iTunes. That > > is, you click on the panel and drag the mouse to move the window. It > > makes it very easy to move windows using just the mouse, because it > > eliminates the need to aim the mouse at the title bar. Most > > applications have empty panel space, for example in the menu bar that > > is not occupied by the menu itself. > > > > How feasible is this? Probably this would require tight coupling with > > the window manager? If it is possible, I guess it would be > > implemented in GTKBox or GTK > > this has nothing to do with GTK. it is controlled 100% by the window > manager (although you could undermine that and move the window from > within the app). Not all content inside a window should be draggable, only inactive content, like the part of the menu bar that is not taken up by the menu, and spece on a panel that is not taken up by active controls like buttons, menus, lists, etc. Does the window manager have knowledge about what part of the window content is a panel versus a button? > just choose a window manager that allows this kind of behaviour. i don't > happen to like the specific behaviour you are describing, but i do have > icewm set up so that Alt-F7 lets me start dragging the window directly > under the mouse. there are other models for doing this, and i am sure > that there is at least 1 window manager that implements each model. In popular window managers like KWin, Sawfish, Metacity and others, Alt+Button1 starts moving the window by default. I was talking about using *only* the mouse for this. In some applications, like Real Player and iTunes, clicking on an area that is not an active widget (like a button) and dragging, drags the window. I would think that this has to do with the tool kit those applications use. It is considerably more convenient for users who use the mouse a lot, as well as for disabled users. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
