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.

 
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