Re: [Usability] dragging documents/document windows

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 19 Apr 2005, at 20:05, Daniel Borgmann wrote:

> There was also a suggestion to add the drag handle on the right of the
> menubar (can't find it right now). I liked that a lot, because this
> space is commonly available, so every document based application could
> add it without too much trouble (unlike a path button thingy in the
> statusbar) and unlike a drag handle in the titlebar, we could easily
> implement it without any WM spec magic. It might also be more
> discoverable.

This is how Sun's OpenWindows used to do it, FWIW:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806-2901/6jc3a4lqj?a=view

Cheeri,
Calum.

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