Re: Application-controlled window dragging

On 10/5/07, Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:13:41PM -0700, Christian Hammond wrote:
> >    The piece of code I'm working on now is an experiment at the moment, but
> >    it will be part of a full-blown feature we're working on, one which I'm
> >    sure will be very popular. I can't talk about the feature in detail
> >    (unless either of you want to sign an NDA, which I can probably arrange),
> >    as it hasn't been announced yet, but not having this support will have a
> >    serious impact on this feature's usability.
>
> I appreciate these issues, but I also hope you realize there are some
> fundamental difficulties with convincing a free standards group to
> mandate some behavior in N different window manager projects, just on
> your word that it will allow one proprietary app to have a totally
> cool feature that is best implemented and set in stone in this way
> that I came up with and no-one has reviewed, trust me.

Given that it would seem to finally allow for professional quality
user interfaces outside of the "one square window" realm, I think it's
a very welcome proposition.

Dana