Drag Window from anywhere in Metacity?

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Markus Hitter <mah at jump-ing.de> wrote:
>
> Am 22.08.2008 um 19:16 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan:
>
>> 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.
>
> In Mac OS X, drag-from-anywhere is a feature not of the window manager, but
> implemented on the widget set level (Cocoa, Carbon). A developer decides at
> interface design time wether his app has this feature or not. Some
> developers prefer their app to be drag-from-titlebar-only, others don't.
> Both types of apps coexist smoothly.

Developer option?  Ugh, that's a good way to get rid of that
consistency they brag about.  Well, Apple's own apps don't do
drag-from-anywhere.  I haven't really used many 3rd party
ones...NeoOffice, Fink, Camino, Adium...about it.  If it's added to
GNOME/GTK/Ubuntu, can we please make it something that affects all
apps, not just ones where the dev decided to be different?  "I can
click here and move my Firefox, but not Pidgin, is Pidgin broken?"
doesn't sound like a good situation.

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