Re: Is that true about Metacity ??!!

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 07:09, Santanu Chatterjee wrote:
> By instinct, I pressed Alt and then dragged the window
> upwards, and THE WINDOW MOVED BEYOND THE TOP PANEL and
> I could see the bottom of the window. I just could not
> believe my eyes!! So, have I found a bug (feature, if
> you ask me). 
> 
> Somebody please confirm whether this _is_ a feature recently
> introduced in Metacity. If it is true, wow, and a HUGE thanks
> to whoever done it. 

The intended behavior has always been that you can move a window off the
top if the window is too large (but not otherwise). It's been broken
before though.

> Expecting the wireframe type of window
> movement soon :)

This is already in CVS and in Fedora Core 1 and RHEL 3, though the
resulting code complexity has been causing a few bugs.

Havoc