On Friday 13 May 2011 18:41:50 Hugo Pereira Da Costa wrote: > Hello Nikos, > > > I noticed that when running in KDE and using the Oxygen style, the > > windows of my Qt application can be dragged around with the mouse by > > clicking on any area in the window, not just the title bar. But it > > behaves strange in my application: window dragging only works in parts > > of the window that have nothing in them yet. > > Yes. That's the intended behavior of the feature. > "Drag window from empty areas". > > > Note that dragging in those areas shouldn't be possible to begin with. > > "To begin with", Why so ? This feature was asked by several people, > already supported in other styles (bespin, qtcurve), accepted inside > kde, and added to oxygen since kde4.5. Also, it can be disabled in the > front page of "oxygen-settings".
This feature also lead to much complaining/wondering on the kde-devel irc channel when introduced. I for example consider it the most unnecessary and annoying feature of the the otherwise excellent oxygen style. I trigger it very often accidently when trying to resize some part of an mdi window (sorry currently can't remember the name of the widget) and beeing of by some pixel. For example the treeview in dolphin or the folder list in kmail. I trigger it when accidently/idly holding the mouse button over some unused widget space, when beeing to fast and a little bit off while trying to open a menu and a myriad other ways. I never ever needed it for any practical purpose. It minimizes previously maximized windows, It moves them to a completly different part of my screen and i have to move it back. Sorry we are not all unfailable artists with handling the mouse. I consider it really annoying and wonder what people think of that feature that have difficulties with eye->hand coordination. What is wrong with pressing alt and having the same feature in a much more visible, reliable and accepted way? That works everywhere. And i btw. would once again object to having that feature enabled by default. Mike >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
