[haiku-development] Ctrl+Alt window management functionality
- From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 14:46:11 -0500
As it appears that ticket 7063
https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/7063
Is raging on today I thought that it might be a good time to point out
a few other usability issues I noticed... But not on trac since that
ticket has enough noise already.
When you press ctrl+alt the window edges get highlighted to show the
resize edges but a LMB click does a move which I find confusing. What
should happen is when you push ctrl+alt all 4 sides of the window
should highlight. When you push the LMB down the mouse pointer should
turn into a 4 direction arrow indicating a move.
I also think that a RMB drag to resize is a little strange. I think a
better solution would be to have another modifier key, I propose ctrl
+alt+shift switch you into "resize mode" and then the current edge
highlighting would be activated. The LMB then would be used to resize
as the RMB does now.
So to sum up:
ctrl+alt highlights all 4 window edges indicating a move
ctrl+alt+LMB does a window move with all 4 edges highlighted and the
mouse pointer becoming a 4 direction mouse pointer.
ctrl+alt+shift does the current resize edge highlighting
ctrl+alt+shift+LMB does a resize with the current edge highlighting
and mouse pointer arrow replacing.
Perhaps the ctrl+alt+shift key combo won't work but I like the idea of
visually indicating a move vs a drag. And although I don't like the
RMB drag, I can live with it.
Thanks,
John Scipione
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