On Monday, May 16, 2011 10:38:51 am Hugo Pereira Da Costa wrote: > To this point I think everything has been said (multiple times) on this > thread already, and am not seing anything new with respect to what was > already discussed few kde releases ago. > > > Ultimately, I believe that the decision about what the default settings > for Oxygen's "window drag" feature is Nuno (who designs oxygen) and me > (who develops oxygen) to make (unless, of course, someone else wants to > step in and take the job: this is open source). > > > The reasons for the current defaults have already been motivated in this > thread and elsewhere. > As far as I'm concerned, unless Nuno thinks otherwise, this will not > change. > > > Among these reasons: the feature is actually working - in a consistent > way -, for the vast > majority of applications. > (I think Todd's summary of the situation is quite comprehensive and > correct with that respect, even though some people decided to simply > ignore the corresponding emails) > > > Whether people like it or not is a separate (and irrelevant) issue. This > thread has already shown that for each person hating the feature you can > find one loving it. > > > To some extent, choices made by other toolkits (cocoa, gtk, whatever), > other widgets styles, etc. are also unrelated and irrelevant. > > > ... > > As was already stated, we will help fixing, either on the style level, > or on the application level, the applications for which the window drag > feature conflicts with normal use of the application (which has to be > decided, in my oppinion by both apps and oxygen devs on a per > application level), has we have already done in the past. > > Feel free to forward to Oxygen all the related bug reports that app > receive, we will address them (just like we did adress the original > issue that started this otherwise overly highjacked thread). With that opinion, I can only conclude: Commercial vendors of Qt software must enforce an own style and not use the set default, otherwise their applications might break, even with a default KDE desktop.
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