On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 11:03 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Shaun McCance<sha...@gnome.org> wrote: > > > > >> My suggestion for Alt-click is to turn it off by default, since it > >> seems to cause problems for some apps, and the functionality is > >> available via the window menu anyway. > > > > Alt+drag is the last resort of people who have to deal > > with big windows on small screens. They'll have some > > issues using the window menu: > > > > 1) The title bar might not be visible if they've moved > > it off-screen. I'm not sure how many people know you > > can right click on the window border. And, I suppose, > > it's possible the window is so asstastic that you can't > > even see any window border. > > > > 2) Metacity doesn't let you drag the title bar off-screen, > > except when you're using alt+drag. (Maybe it allows this > > if the window is bigger than the screen. If it's smart > > enough for that, strike this point.) > > > > I know, fix those apps, right? > > > > Nah, just tell them to use Alt-F7. The window menu even lists that as > the shortcut, so it is actually sortof discoverable.
Ah, right. Certainly more discoverable than Alt+drag. And I just tested it: Metacity does allow you to move the title bar off-screen with Alt+F7 if the window is too big for the screen. So I don't object to that proposal in general, though I'm somewhat concerned about doing it after the UI freeze. We'd need to look for places where users are instructed to Alt+drag and update them to say to use Alt+F7. (And that's also only a half truth, since those keybindings are configurable.) -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
