[haiku-development] Re: Ctrl+Alt window management functionality
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:29:38 +0100
On 2011-01-10 at 17:23:25 [+0100], Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Ingo Weinhold, on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:43:57 +0100:
> > Unless one has a huge window to resize, the resizing sectors aren't
> > that big,
> > and moving the mouse blindly while looking at the borders doesn't
> > work that
> > well. When looking at the mouse cursor, a subtle border highlight is
> > too hard
> > to discern (unless the window is tiny and one sees both mouse cursor
> > and
> > borders clearly at the same time anyway) and the eyes have to flick
> > back and
> > forth between cursor and borders.
>
> If people focus on the mouse pointer (which sounds reasonable), maybe
> we could do away with the border highlightling and use different mouse
> pointers when CTRL+ALT is held instead. Like showing small bars around
> the pointer according to the to be resized borders. The mouse hand
> itself could turn into a "move" symbol. Left-clicking would then only
> show the "move" pointer, right-clicking only a corresponding "resize"
> pointer.
I thought about that, too, but figured a move pointer plus with border
indication might look a bit crammed. Other than that it seems the most
elegant solution.
> (Care must be taken that pressing CTRL+ALT reveals the mouse pointer
> when it's hidden over a text view and the move/resize pointer overrides
> the text-input pointer.)
I see, that's an already existing bug.
CU, Ingo
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