Re: [Usability] Discoverable off-screen window dragging

[Dokuro <dario soto gmail com>]

>>   a possible workaround is to use a large Virtual screen size in
>> xorg.conf.
>
>That's painful because it's harder to reach the panel, and there's no
>visual indication of where you are in the virtual screen. Plus windows
>could get too large anyway.

Is like having a 1024 resolution over a 800 one, you are centered on
the 1024 and and move around in a 800 area, but the menu bars should
be like a hud in a video game moving with the view of the user (so
they don't get lost), and the view will move around when the mouse
moves to the edge of the 800 window while being on a virtual 1024
resolution.
I have seen this happen while in dual screen mode with a TV and a
Monitor, the monitor has a bigger resolution and the TV does not, so
the TV moves when the mouse goes too far on the edge. of course the
menus stayed put on their position, but that should not happen.
It could be a little annoying, because it would act as if looking
thought a screen from a smaller screen.... some parameters should be
added in order to keep it controllable, it could be set to work as an
extra thing, activate virtual resolution, and draw some lines that
allow such movement of the visual area.

If you need a comparison, read or play metroid prime on wii using the
beginners control scheme. This game has a virtual box where the
"cursor" moves out of this invisible box, the view shifts.

I thought that gnome knew when the mouse was on an edge, because KDE
had it... we should ad it! :)

On Nov 29, 2007 2:45 AM, Hans Petter Jansson <hpj novell com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 12:08 +0530, ritz wrote:
>
> >   a possible workaround is to use a large Virtual screen size in
> > xorg.conf.
>
> That's painful because it's harder to reach the panel, and there's no
> visual indication of where you are in the virtual screen. Plus windows
> could get too large anyway.
>
> --
> Hans Petter
>
>
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