[maemo-developers] Moving windows in Maemo

[From: Tapani Pälli]

ext Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 12:20 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> [snip]
>   
>> You're asking for an option to set that dialog should be resizable
>> and movable?  (that's different from what you asked earlier)
>>
>> Btw. If you want to know more about the standard for application
>> and window manager communication, see:
>>   http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html
>>     
>
> Isn't this just an issue of the MatchBox window manager. It generally
> prefers to fullscreen windows and doesn't allow secondary windows to be
> moved or resized by the user, at least on Maemo. Obviously a user can
> move and resize windows on a regular GNOME desktop.
>
> That seems to be a fairly sane decision by the Maemo UI people in order
> to simplify the UI. It might not be to everyone's liking.
>   
Yes, this is what it is. It is possible to have movable and resizable
dialogs with Matchbox, we just don't want them.


// Tapani