On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 06:58:26PM -0700, Ilya Sandler wrote:
> > If you are going to highlight title bar buttons, why not title, side
> > and corner handles as well? ?They are usually grabable.
> 
> Mouse pointer already changes when it's over side/corner handles, so
> you would not gain anything by highlighting them. Titlebars are HUGE,
> it's hard to miss them  and mouse pointer frequently goes over them
> accidentally so benefits of highlighting are low while the visual
> disruption caused by highlighting is much higher.
> 
> And one more consideration: accidental click/drag on either side
> handles or a title is normally a less
> dangerous operation than accidental click on "Close the window" button.
> 
> > If by 'without any configuration requirements' means it can't be
> > disabled by the configuration, I'm not going to like it.
> 
> Correct, currently there is no way to disable/modify this behaviour..
> If there is an interest, I could try to add configuration option (but
> I am not at all sure that I'd be able to do it ;-)
> 
> Out of curiousity: are you objecting because you yourself dislike this
> kind of highlighting and so would want to disable it? (Or simply b/c
> of general fvwm philosophy of "everything mus be configurable")
> 
> Ilya

I find it distracting moving the mouse over a program and all these
changes happen that I don't see the usefulness of.  I know about where
the active point in the cursor is enough to hit a button.  KDE
provides an option to disable highlighting the button under mouse, and
I have it disabled there.  I would disable the hover button
highlighting.

I've not had the problem of clicking one window decoration button
instead of another.  I have three buttons and the close is next to the
menu button.  I use close far more often than that button.

I have had a problem with hitting the scroll wheel up and down over
the close button enough that I have it ignore the scroll wheel over
the close button.

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