[haiku-development] Re: Ctrl+Alt window management functionality
- From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:08:44 -0500
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:54 AM, <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [And in general my whole attraction to Haiku is that it replicates BeOS
> behaviour, which I always found intuitive and congenial. Haiku has so
> far done an excellent job of remedying many of BeOS's original deficiencies.
> Gratuitous fundamental changes in the GUI would not be welcome, though.]
I meant to get back to this aside before so I'm doing it now. Haiku is
not BeOS, it is inspired by BeOS and is compatible with it, but is not
required to emulate it exactly, it says so right on the front page.
There is no obligation to reproduce BeOS's behavior exactly, if you
want that you'll have to start your own project.
That being said I understand that there are certain conventions that
BeOS user's are expecting and it is important to take those into
consideration. I understand where you are coming from and respect it.
I want to spitball an idea here, no commitment, I thought it might be
a good way to satisfy both the BeOS faithful and switchers too. This
idea is a bit off-topic from rest of the discussion, sorry.
I was using Microsoft Office today and I noticed this little widget:
http://imagebin.org/243834
(If you are reading this after the picture expires it is a picture of
a table object in MS Office 2011). And I thought that this might be a
neat little solution. What if we were to add a resize knobs on the
window border on the corners and in the middle of the edges like
pictured that perform a resize and have the rest of the window border
continue to perform a move. This would pay homage to BeOS (and MacOS
where this really originates btw) while also providing a bit of
convenience to switchers. You could move the window and resize the
window with the primary mouse button. No other OS works like this that
I know so you can't accuse me of copying at least. Anyway, just
thought I'd throw it out there and see if anybody liked the idea.
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