Re: [Usability] Discoverable off-screen window dragging

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On Nov 30, 2007 4:51 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com> wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> > ...
> > Which made me wonder if there's a more discoverable way of moving
> > windows around when they're too big/partially off-screen.
> > ...
>
> Sure there is. Make a window movable by dragging not just the title
> bar, but *any* part of it that doesn't contain something else
> clickable.

Unfortunately, the WM currently has no way of determining whether a
given pixel position corresponds to something clickable in a window.
That happens to be part of the nasty drag and drop problem[1].

Elijah


[1] Raise on button release instead of button click unless the button
press started a drag and drop operation.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152952