# from Bryce Harrington # on Friday 05 January 2007 02:45 am:
using a shortcut that GNOME and KDE both already have locked up is untenable. Despite the eligance of the one-to-one correspondance, the fact is that the shortcut isn't realistically available for use.
IMNSHO, the "alt+drag to move window" wm shortcut is a very useless waste of what would otherwise be a very useful application shortcut. I suspect that nobody running a lot of graphics applications has left it at the default, because if you're doing very much with graphics, you need those modifiers for the mouse. I suppose if one deals with nothing but text, moving windows is the most mouse-intensive task.
Let them add more bucky bits to the kde setting if they feel that shuffling windows around is such a critical task. Sure, it is a little severe to claim ownership of this shortcut, but wasn't it a little audacious for the WM's to claim it globally?
I'm curious how many users actually utilize that WM feature. Isn't the case for most users simply that they'll have to disable the default to get the window manager out of their way? (BTW, "out of the way" is where the WM is supposed to be.)
--Eric