Drag Window from anywhere in Metacity?

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com> wrote:
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> Dylan McCall wrote on 22/08/08 17:12:
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>> I recently noticed a really awesome feature in Matchbox. When it is set
>> to have windows in free mode (rather than fixed), one can drag those
>> windows from /anywhere/. As long as the widget being dragged does not
>> handle the necessary click events itself (eg: Is a button, text box,
>> scroll bar, etc), the event is handled by Matchbox and used to drag the
>> window. I found that very smooth and very smart. It is quite a unique
>> feature in the world of operating systems.
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> All brushed-metal windows in Mac OS had this behavior, starting with
> QuickTime Player 4.0 in 1999 and iTunes in 2001. As of Mac OS X 10.5
> (which abolished brushed-metal windows), it is standard behavior for all
> windows.

Brushed metal windows were Carbon, I think.  I'm also pretty sure what
you're saying of Cocoa is not true though.  Just got a Mac user nearby
to demonstrate it, actually.   You have to click in the titlebar to
move the window.  Not having Alt-Click-and-move-from-anywhere is one
of my big complaints about Apple's window manager.

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