switching desktops with mouse.. (possible bug)

Anto C anto.cvitic at telia.com
Sun Jun 22 23:52:36 CEST 2003


Oliver, :)

Ah, i see.

I find it usefull now., i have found a way to use it :)
I had the problem of resizing the window of <whatever app i worked on> that 
was maximized when reeching for the scrollbar, this is/was *really* annoying 
in fluxbox and enlightenment aswell, now i just maximeze the window a litle 
bit more so the edge goes outside the margins and i cant resize it by 
misstake :)
(but cant switch desktops either, but its no big deal sence i got the pager..)

Cheers
Anto

On Sunday 22 June 2003 22.44, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Anto,
>
> There are basically two ways for implementing that feature:
>
> 1) Listen to mouse move events on the root window.
>    => Very simple implementation.
>    But, some apps don't let the events get thru, so we don't catch all
>    the events.
> 2) Map input only small windows on all edges that wil receive the events
>    => A bit more complex (not *that* much though), but requires
>    definitely more code and testing, to avoid side effects with other
>    apps. Furthermore, keeping those windows arround means that they must
>    be kept on top of the stack, whetever happens.
>
> The "switch workspace" option has been added recently, I was more or
> less against it, and I really don't see the point in adding more
> complexity to the code just for that.
>
> Another side effect, more positive, is that you don't accidently switch
> workspace when working inside a window.
>
> As I usually like to say, I see no point in bloating the software for
> 100% of the user with features that will be used by maybe 10% of them.
>
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
>
> On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 19:40, Anto C wrote:
> > Becouse i like xfce4 much more, it doenst bother me _that_ much, im just
> > saying maybe its a bug becouse i saw it is do-able?
> > Did  you code it this way intentionally?
> > Why is it better this way?
> > I think the option "warp workspaces when mouse reeches the edge" should,
> > as it says, not depend on wheter a window is benieth it or not.
> >
> > Cheers.
> > Anto.
> >
> > On Saturday 21 June 2003 21.58, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > > Anto,
> > >
> > > Why not sticking with Enlightenment then ?
> > >
> > > I think it's better the way it is now.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Olivier.
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 19:18, Anto C wrote:
> > > > Hi.
> > > >
> > > > I use the function of switching the desktop when moving the mouse to
> > > > the borders alot, and noticed that if you have a window that has a
> > > > part of it on "the other desktop" so it overhemls the background then
> > > > switching desktops is not possible by moving the mouse to the
> > > > border.. It seems its only possible when there is a free area of the
> > > > backdrop to switch the desktop this way. I think this should not be
> > > > this way, in enlightenment wich has the same function (almost) works
> > > > nicely.
> > > >
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