[patch] Grab windows anywhere, not just titlebar

[Luciano Montanaro]

Il Wednesday 07 November 2007 20:02:25 Lubos Lunak ha scritto:
> On st 7. listopadu 2007, Stefan Monov wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > So I saw Frederik's commit 731583:
> > "Make it possible to move the krunner window by clicking on an empty part
> > of it and dragging the mouse."
> >
> > I have always thought it would be great if all KDE windows behaved like
> > that (btw Mac OS X does it), so I did some copy-paste-fu and here we have
> > a patch -- attached.
> >
> > It makes all KMainWindows and KDialogs grabable. cool =)
> >
> > Unfortunately it doesn't work when you grab:
> > - the space on the right of menubars
> > - a groupbox
> > - a widgetstack
> > - the space on the right of breadcrumb bars
>
> - something that is not a KMainWindow or KDialog
>
> > - etc.
> >
> > Inherent disadvantages:
> > - introduces inconsistency with non-kde apps
>
> - introduces inconsistency with kde apps (see above), meaning that's
> probably not the right place for it
> - possibility to unintentionally move a window with a slightly sloppy click
> (am I the only one who hates the "cool" feature of accidentally wheeling
> over taskbar/pager)
> - hmm, is it really that difficult to hold Alt which works everywhere?
>

Not really. But I hope this new fashion of using undecorated windows does not 
spread too much. Actually, another simpler change to fix krunner would be to 
let it have its standard window borders.

Luciano


> > - anything else?
>
>  How does Mac OS X handle it so that the user doesn't trigger it
> accidentally or hunt for "random" parts of the window where it actually
> works?