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Looking at that screenshot, one question: What do we drag stuff with now without setting off a menu?
by d0 13y ago
Looking at that screenshot, one question:
What do we drag stuff with now without setting off a menu?
- dave809 13y agoI think the assumption is that the menu won't take up the entire bar
- d0 13y agoThat's a pretty poor assumption then.
- AhtiK 13y agoNot sure about Unity but in quite a few Linux desktops you can press Alt and move window by clicking anywhere in the region. That's how I've always moved windows and been surprised when Windows or OS X have behaved differently. But the question is great! For a regular user dragging window without setting off a menu can become a serious usability issue. Yes, menu won't take the whole bar but still the size of the movable area becomes substantially smaller. One solution to detect dragging could be to use mouse release event for menu, instead of press and filter out shaky hand who actually wanted menu, not drag. But then again it's still bad because user expects menu system to react ASAP/mouse press, not release.
- krakensden 13y agoUnity and Gnome have that disabled by default :(
- dethstar 13y agoin GNOME you can do it by pressing the windows(super) key.
- CyberShadow 13y agoWatch the video in the article. At 0:48, they drag the titlebar as usual, even though there are menu entries directly under the mouse cursor. I guess they have replaced the "pull down" mouse gesture with initiating a window drag, so the only way to open a menu with the mouse is to click it.
- vinkelhake 13y agoHolding the button down for longer than some threshold or moving the mouse more than some distance starts a drag.
- hrkristian 13y agoRelevant image: http://i.imgur.com/Ppp12vB.png http://i.imgur.com/Ppp12vB.png GNOME leaves a small portion of the top bar free for dragging purposes (about an inch on my 17'' monitor)... more than ample space to suit anyone's dragging needs.
- d0 13y agoThanks for posting this - your efforts are appreciated :)
- yxhuvud 13y agoHold alt. Drag anywhere. In general, these kinds of questions are best answered by holding down the windows-button until the help shows up.