On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, bulia byak wrote:
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:21:32 -0300 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: Select Under
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:22:52 +0100 (BST), Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> wrote:
Presumably Metacity is not one of those Window managers (and hopefully not the default KDE window manager either).
Dunno about Metacity, but KDE does steal alt+click. I had to reconfigure it (it was easy). Of course forcing people to do WM configuration is not the best thing possible, but there's simply no other modifier I could use for this. And besides, alt+click and alt+drag are not core capabilities, so casual users can do without them.
(logged into a Linux machine to check) Metacity use Alt+Click(and Hold) to allow users to drag a window but I cannot come up with a better suggestion and you are right, select under is not a vital feature so for now it is a reasonable compromise.
From trying to make changes in other projects my worry (paranoia almost)
is that users will become too accustomed to all the little compromises that have to be made. That in the future when people want to change things for the better users will resist, or even worse developers will have moved on and the new developers will also resist changes failing to understand the compromises that were made.
We are not yet even at 1.0 so there is room to change things, and the attitude of the communinity is good so I expect the current developers wont be leaving anytime soon.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/