Bizarre window snap at screen borders

[Wes Hardin]

On 10/24/2013 04:27 AM, Duncan wrote:
> Roberto Ragusa posted on Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:53:04 +0200 as excerpted:
> 
>> On 10/23/2013 09:23 PM, Wes Hardin wrote:
>>> It is an intended behavior.  It was introduced (with many bugs) in 4.11
>>> and refined gradually over the past two releases.  I understand the
>>> developer's reasoning, but it has no benefit in my (and apparently
>>> others') workflow.  I have had lengthy dicussions with the KDE
>>> developers about at least making it optional.  They have refused.
>>
>> Unbelievable.
>> I do not mind crazy defaults as far as I can revert to what I consider
>> saner, but this one is not even configurable.
>> Inconsistent and ugly.
> 
> FWIW, I believe it /was/ configurable at one point.  I remember an option 
> in kde settings... something about "maximized windows can be resized", 
> with a checkbox, IIRC.  And I set that and all was fine... until a kde 
> update apparently removed that functionality and dragging the edge of a 
> maximized window "broke".  I thought the setting had just got reset and 
> spent quite some time turning kde settings upside down and inside out, 
> attempting to shake out that configuration option again, but I finally 
> decided the option must have been removed.  This thread now confirms it.

That is a separate issue that I don't know about.  My maximized windows don't
have a border to grab and drag, which I thought was a selectable option but I
can't seem to find it now.  I remember seeing the "maximized windows can be
resized" option at one point too, but if maximized windows don't even have the
option of having a border now then that option wouldn't make much sense.

The issue here is related to snapping, packing, or creating new windows at the
edge of the desktop.  The KDE devs have determined that in every case, for every
user, the border is useless at the edge of the desktop and thus windows should
snap to the edge of the client rather than the decoration.

For maximized windows (which don't have a border) I expect client content to end
at the edge of the screen, but I have many, many more non-maximized terminals
where the border provides the valuable visual feedback about the end of content.
 With the border off-screen, I just have a black box with text and no indicator
of whether the content is going off-screen.  Did I accidentally move part of the
window off screen?  Other users have various other uses for the border.

While I recognize that some users may like the "feature", there are many who
have voiced their dislike of the feature.  I'm not advocating that my way be the
only way, I've only asked for an option to toggle it.

/* wes */
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