Re: GNOME 2.0 feedback

[snickell stanford edu]

Quoting Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>:

> On 23 Jul 2002, Christian Rose wrote:
> 
> > tis 2002-07-23 klockan 17.00 skrev Calum Benson:
> > > > Another thing that may help the usability of the pager would be
> if the 
> > > > window you moused over prelighted in the pager. This way it
> might be 
> > > > easier to pick the right window. Right now it can be hard for
> small 
> > > > windows.
> > > > 
> > > > Some sort of zooming would perhaps work too, but it sounds a
> bit hard to 
> > > > get right. I mean, where do you zoom it to? and when?
> > > 
> > > Before do anything to it, I'd be wanting to know how many people
> > > actually want to move their windows around in such a small space
> (even
> > > between workspaces) and why, when there are quicker and easier
> ways
> > > available...
> > 
> > One thing I've personally used that feature for was when
> application
> > windows ended up with their title bar outside of the screen and I
> had no
> > idea of how to move them back except using the switcher for this.
> > People have afterwards explained to me how I could have used
> Alt+mouse
> > for that instead, but I didnt know about it at that time and using
> the
> > switcher was the most apparent to me, since I already knew it could
> move
> > Windows.
> 
> Of course, metacity won't allow you to get the title bar outside the
> 
> screen.

Woo hoo! It all comes together ;-)

-Seth