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

  • From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:11:13 -0500

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 4:25 PM,  <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 09:18:04AM +0100, Humdinger wrote:
>> Hi John!
>>
>> On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:39:39 -0500 John Scipione wrote:
>> > I understand that you (Ingo and Humdinger) are partial to the current
>> > behavior so here is my new idea. What if I were to make the window
>> > borders perform a resize instead of a pan with no keys held?
>>
>> I have no problems with that,
>
> I have *major* problems with that! (:-/)
>
> I drag windows by their most convenient edge all the time.  I often have
> so many windows open that some of them are bound to have their tabs 
> off-screen.
> To me this is a *feature* of BeOS, not a problem!  Please don't mess.

You could hold down ctrl+alt and drag the window not just by it's edge
but by the entire window area, isn't that a fair compromise?

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