On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:08:10 +0930 B Bruen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:53:41 +0930 > B Bruen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 20:34:09 -0600 > > herberth guzman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Fabien > > > I think He want to disable the ability of x to move a windows with alt + > > > mousedown > > > > > > Benoit > > > Fabien says what is right. What I need is to disable the ability of x to > > > move a windows with alt + mousedown > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Herberth > > > > Herbeth, > > > > Be careful of what you wish for. Moving a window is a user decision. I > > have a non-gambas application (a uml toolkit) that does this and it is an > > almighty pain in the ARS*! In fact I avoid using it as much as possible. > > Consider a situation where a user has multiple monitors. Claiming the > > central or startup monitor as "MINE" could be considered rude at least .... > > > > Bruce > > > > -- > > B Bruen <[email protected]> > > > > > > And as a perfect example, we work in a situation where there is a W*ND*Ws > POS touchscreen system alongside our linux based screens. When their POS > collapses the error popup falls behind the screen-grabbing POS application, > which then appears totally locked. On the other hand, if something terrible > happens to our screen app then Alt-Tab and Alt+mousemove lets us find the > error popup. > > I wish I had a $ for each time the user has watched me drag the main window > aside, get the error and click the "FixThis" button ... and then said "Well > why cant you do that here too????" .... > > best wishes, I suppose you have reasons. > > B > And here's my favourite example of linux gui stupidity. (not the uml modeller mentioned above by the way). Modelio. Modelio is a java UML tool. When you start it, which takes the standard 15 seconds or so, they display a flash screen that occupies every virtual desktop. Unmoveable and unhideable. Great, I could answer 3 emails in that time ... if I could see them. 8 desktops and every one of them has a bloody great red box of meaningless artistic bulldust in the middle of it. User friendly rating - visceral. -- B Bruen <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
