On 05/16/2014 11:37 AM, Aere Greenway wrote:
On 05/16/2014 11:12 AM, Ali Linx wrote:
Not really. This is true ONLY if that window allows you to do that.
Most of the painful cases where you can't do anything but to hit
'Enter' key blindly assuming that would mean 'Ok' or press 'Esc' or
just close the window.
Ali:
This surprises me. Admittedly, I haven't tried this on every Ubuntu
variant. I have only tried it on the systems I have on my HP Mini.
I have a Linux Mint partition on that machine. I will try the test
there.
I am not aware of any way the application can prevent the OS from
moving the window via Alt-click-drag. The application can prevent
re-sizing, and it can limit some of the title-bar buttons from being
there. I know of no way it can prevent dragging.
As far as I know, Windows only allows you to drag the window by
clicking on the title-bar and dragging. The Alt-click-drag seems to
be a Linux thing.
I definitely sympathize with the plight of people with small screens.
On my own application, I thought a lot about what absolutely had to be
in the main window. There is a certain set of controls that you need
to be able to use without resorting to an additional dialog.
On the HP Mini, I can actually use my application because I can
position the window (using alt-click-drag) so that the important
controls (on the main pane) are all on the screen at the same time.
And I did put a fix in so that if the window doesn't fit on the screen
(in either or both directions) that it re-sizes the window to use the
minimum size in each problem direction.
I can't use my application on Windows XP (on the HP Mini) because the
title-bar has to be visible to drag the window, and the title-bar is
one of the non-necessary parts of the window.
Ali:
I tried it on Linux Mint (which uses the Gnome desktop) on my HP Mini
notebook computer.
It appears to work the same there, with a few minor differences.
When I tried to move the Firefox window using the alt-click-drag method,
it worked, but it first re-sized the window to where it didn't fill up
the whole screen. The alt-click-drag method of moving the window worked.
I could move the Synaptic Package Manager window using the
alt-click-drag method.
My application behaved the same way as on Lubuntu. Per my fix, I
display the window in its minimum vertical dimensions, which was still
too large for the screen, but better than before. I could move the
window around using the alt-click-drag method.
There was one notable difference I noticed. The "maximize window"
button was not on the title-bar. There was still a "minimize (iconify)
window" button, but no "maximize window" button. Also, the Java/Swing
function-key (F11) to make the current window full-screen had no effect.
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Sincerely,
Aere
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