GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 408907
gnome-window-properties-learn-about-mouse-actions - Linus Torvalds
Last modified: 2011-03-18 02:32:45 UTC
Putting the patches created by Linus Torvalds into bugzilla so we can properly track them accross involved modules. This is the gnome-window-properties-learn-about-mouse-actions patch.
Created attachment 82734 [details] [review] Patch from Linus
fwiw I believe there are a number of other probably-more-in-demand hidden settings for metacity that aren't in this dialog either, so adding this one doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Maybe it's at least worth making a list of all the stuff in metacity.schemas that's not in the dialog, to see what other things might be packed in here if you're going to start trying to pack them all in here. While I'm sure this patch will see a lot of demand and bugzilla lobbying due to slashdot or whatever, before the sample got all biased, some of the other hidden metacity settings probably looked more popular. After all, those other settings were already implemented, and nobody has cared enough to code this one for 5 years or more. Just tough to see how this should be a visible setting instead of a hidden setting while a bunch of others remain hidden. If someone wants to advocate making them all visible (I know someone will) then OK, but that's a separate argument from whether to add just this one thing. .02, I am not the maintainer.
I think that you have sayed something very interesting: "If someone wants to advocate making them all visible (I know someone will) then OK, but that's a separate argument from whether to add just this one thing." I think that could be nice open a "tracker" bug with bugs like this one, that demands more options being able to be configured from a preferences dialog for metacity :-) Now you can configure double-, middle- and right-clicking also using the graphical interfaces. "About the patch, I am not a programmer, then I only know what the patch does with their description in the patch" Seems a very interesting feature :-), but I also think that other demanded features should be reviewed, and this "track" bug could be nice for make this easier ;-) Thanks a lot :-)
Somewhere there is a tracker for mouse/key actions. Yes, please post a list here or in a tracker bug for implemented but hidden config in metacity as Havoc suggests, lots of us don't know about them.
You can see all the options here: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/metacity/src/metacity.schemas.in?view=markup
well, in svn: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/metacity/trunk/src/metacity.schemas.in?view=markup and the enum seems like a faster way to scan them: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/metacity/trunk/src/prefs.h?view=markup looking at it, there aren't really that many, I guess the feature creep isn't as bad as I thought ;-) Most of them aren't exposed in control panels but in other contextual places like the workspace switcher, but most of them are not hidden.
An alternative way to handle this is an older suggestion from Seth (which was supported by Havoc a few years ago) for handling the configuration of various Unix user options: bug 154614 comment 3. I'd prefer that route.
Which basically means you're calling for someone to revive gTweakUI?
Deep Metacity configuration, to gnome-tweak-tool.
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.