On 05/13/2011 08:09 PM, Michael Jansen wrote: > 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 actually loved the feature, since it allowed the title and menu bars to behave as one. As for generalizing this to cover all empty areas, not just the menu bar, I found that less useful, but definitely not negative. I never seem to trigger it by mistake. >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<