[haiku-development] Re: Ctrl+Alt window management functionality

On 10/01/11 09:12, Axel Dörfler wrote:

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I think nobody questions the feature itself, it's just that the current 
behavior can be improved.
What should be improved IMO is the highlighting, and when it appears. I think 
tangobravo's comment on the orignally mentioned bug is quite fitting: if the 
highlighting is subtle, nobody would care. Problem is, it's not subtle at the 
moment.
I would change it like this:
* Instead of changing the color, I would just change the contrast, brightness, 
or saturation or something like that.
* when pressing ctrl+alt, the highlighting could be faded in, for the whole 
border (to show that this is the windows key combo for those who don't know).
* once you move the mouse, a specific border could be highlighted as it is now 
(but possibly also more subtle.
* optionally repurpose shift+left click to resize as well

Any comments on that?
Sounds pretty good - I certainly like fading in the highlighting, and making it more subtle.
I'm not sure about switching highlighting "mode" on mouse move, as the LMB still does a window move regardless of the highlighting mode. Perhaps we could come up with a highlighting scheme where all borders are highlighted, but the one closest to the mouse is still differentiated somehow? 

Simon

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