On Feb 10, 2008 11:01 AM, Ivan Sagalaev <maniac@softwaremaniacs.org> wrote:
> Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > The panel could copy this behavior: Alt+dragging could move the panel,
> > while normal dragging does nothing. That way people would be much less
> > likely to move the panel by mistake.
>
> Matthew, do you have any suggestions on how discoverability of this can
> be improved? I don't think Alt+dragging is a well known concept to
> general public or am I wrong?

It's not really general knowledge, but Compiz (and I think Metacity
and most other WMs) already implement this for all normal windows.
I've come to use it almost exclusively after I found out about it.

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Bogdan Butnaru wrote:
>> Matthew, do you have any suggestions on how discoverability of this can
>> be improved? I don't think Alt+dragging is a well known concept to
>> general public or am I wrong?
>
> It's not really general knowledge, but Compiz (and I think Metacity
> and most other WMs) already implement this for all normal windows.
> I've come to use it almost exclusively after I found out about it.

Yes, this consistency is really great. However it's this "after I found
out" bit that I worry about :-).

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sön 2008-02-10 klockan 20:33 +0300 skrev Ivan Sagalaev:
> Martin Ahnelöv wrote:
> > Maybe we could add a little lighbulb with a label that say "TIP: alt
> > +drag the panel to move it" in the configure-interface (the place one
> > are most likely to visit when you are configuring the panel).
> >
> > And is non-obvious features really that bad?
>
> Hi, Martin!
>
> Did you forget to reply to the list also? :-)

Yes, I did =)

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