On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 10:33 -0400, David wrote:

> This is a point my dad brought up when he was using Ubuntu (I had
> given him a Mac-like theme). He said he wasn't sure where to grab the
> window to move it. With alt click being able to move windows so
> readily, is this even all that important? Once I showed it to him he
> didn't seem to mind the titlebar being part of the window nearly as
> much. Frankly I find any operating system that doesn't support
> alt+click moving windows (and alt+middleclick resizing) to be
> extremely annoying.

It was a problem for your Dad. A problem that doesn't need to exist.

Not everyone has someone to show him things like this. Some users
are ... very mouse-centric. You pretty much need to use both hands for a
modifier-click.

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