Re: [GTK] Suggestion: make panels graggable

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 02:31 -0400, Philip Ganchev wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a suggestion for GTK.  It seems that the idea has not been
> discussed before.
> 
> I would like to have panels draggable, similar to Apple iTunes.  That
> is, you click on the panel and drag the mouse to move the window.  It
> makes it very easy to move windows using just the mouse, because it
> eliminates the need to aim the mouse at the title bar. Most
> applications have empty panel space, for example in the menu bar that
> is not occupied by the menu itself.
> 
> How feasible is this?  Probably this would require tight coupling with
> the window manager?  If it is possible, I guess it would be
> implemented in GTKBox or GTK

this has nothing to do with GTK. it is controlled 100% by the window
manager (although you could undermine that and move the window from
within the app).

just choose a window manager that allows this kind of behaviour. i don't
happen to like the specific behaviour you are describing, but i do have
icewm set up so that Alt-F7 lets me start dragging the window directly
under the mouse. there are other models for doing this, and i am sure
that there is at least 1 window manager that implements each model.

--p