GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 651681
Window dragging system needs polish
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:31:57 UTC
Dragging a window to a different workspace is tough: even if you get the window 90% on the thumbnail, it can still fail when your cursor is outside. When this happens, it often seems like the Shell is glitching out without much feedback about what went wrong. If you incorrectly drop it while your mouse is on the right side of the screen, the workspace thumbnails slide out and then back in. Here are some simple solutions: * Some simple feedback for a correct drop target, like a glow or an opacity change. * Resizing the window drag actors so that they are never higher than the workspace thumbnails. * Gauging the workspace drop target by what the significant portion of the window is on when the cursor is not on a thumbnail.
These are all fine suggestions. Some comments with regards to dragging windows to workspaces: (In reply to comment #0) > * Some simple feedback for a correct drop target, like a glow or an opacity > change. Yes! Makes sense to use the same effect that we're going for in 664204. > * Resizing the window drag actors so that they are never higher than the > workspace thumbnails. I'm not sure what you mean here. > * Gauging the workspace drop target by what the significant portion of the > window is on when the cursor is not on a thumbnail. Big +1 for this.
(In reply to comment #1) > I'm not sure what you mean here. If you have a full-screen window in some layout with not a lot of windows, and start dragging it, the thumbnail you're dragging may be bigger than the workspace thumbnails on the right, to where you want to drag it. It makes the operation confusing, and a bit unwieldy.
(In reply to comment #0) > Here are some simple solutions: > > * Some simple feedback for a correct drop target, like a glow or an opacity > change. Well, if we are going by this solution, I submitted a patch for 664204. It shows an indicator (like the current workspace indicator) when window is dragged over a workspace thumbnail.
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