hh wrote: >> Richard Gaskin wrote (in thread 'nice Sierra feature'): >>> Mark Wieder wrote: >>> On linux you can alt-click to grab and move a window. >> >> ... which is both great and horrible. >> It's handy, of course, but it also means not being able to rely on >> Alt-click in our UIs. >> In many cases I've migrated some Alt-click functionality to Shift- >> click, but it's nice to have both mod keys available, and some things >> make more semantic sense with Alt rather than Shift. > > Because this is so important for a lot of Mac/Win/linux stacks, > especially linux-RaspberryPi, I use it there often (and let user's > know in the help): > > [1] > *** alt-mouseDown does NOT come through to LC. > > [2] > *** alt-mouseUp works: > *** You have to FIRST click the object, THEN -- while the mouse is > down -- > *** hold the altKey down. > > (Usually nearly everybody uses the reverse order: first the key then > the click). > *** So one could say, "alt-click" on linux should be done as > "click-alt" ***
Or more specifically, clickdown-hold-alt-clickrelease, which is so unusual that I wouldn't expect to be able to explain it to end-users.
This behavior can be turned off with Compiz Config, dconf Editor, and other such tools, but in a world where ~80 of users never alter preference settings I wouldn't rely on it.
Personally, it seems a bit heavy-handed of the Gnome team to block a modifier key so sweepingly. I may see about submitting an enhancement request to them to change that from Alt-click to Alt-rightclick, which seems far better given how broadly the Alt key us used on other platforms and how relatively seldom it's used for moving windows in Gnome-base desktop environments.
But in the meantime, supporting Linux GUIs means dealing with Gnome decisions, so the Alt-click is not easily available for most apps.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
