Re: preventing moving/dragging of GTK windows

[Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix debian org>]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 01:33:33PM -0800, Stuart Gilbert wrote:
> Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
> > If I use an application which uses the above features, how do I get
> > the control back? I mean, should the guy in the front of the computer
> > be respected more than the application programmer?
>
> There are cases when a full screen unmovable window that cannot have 
> anything above it is completely fine, very important in fact.
> Say you have some sort of display screen on a public computer in a 
> library or something and you need one application to search the book 
> database but you don't want people to just sit there and play around on 
> IRC all day.

Even in that case it is still a user (the administrator) and not a
programmer which should be deciding to have the application run
fullscreen.

And he should be configuring the UI to have the application run
fullscreen; putting the logic to run fullscreen in the application itself
would be bad software design - that functionality does not belong there.


Regards,

Filip

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