GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 302456
dragging offscreen too restrictive
Last modified: 2005-11-19 17:15:12 UTC
Currently dragging partially off screen is constrained to leave about 1/2 inch on screen. This should be reduced to the least amount possible without leaving note in an undraggable condition. Other information:
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I would be very surprised if the developers wanted to change this and make it easier for users to shoot themselves in the foot. More importantly I'm 99% certain this is a Window Manager (Metacity) setting that is beyond the control of Sticky Notes maintainers. There may be an obscure gconf setting that allows you to disable or adjust this restriction but I doubt Mr. Pennington will want to change the default behavouir. Moving to the Metacity product, hopefully they can inform you of an adequate workaround to your problem.
OK, it is a restriction for all windows, so not a stickynotes problem per se. Add 1% to that certainty. It is still too restrictive for stickynotes, and other minimally decorated windows. 1/2 inch for a window which always stays on top is a bit much. Color me silly, but if I can drag it to a position, is it possible for the window to land so that it can not be dragged back? If so, why is there any restriction at all?
" Reassign bug to owner of selected component "
/me wonders why Alan would mark a bug as NEEDINFO without requesting info from the reporter Anyway, I think this is the gripe from src/constraints.c: /* (FIXME instead of TITLEBAR_LENGTH_ONSCREEN, get the actual * size of the menu control?). */ #define TITLEBAR_LENGTH_ONSCREEN 75 Of course, there is no menu control for undecorated windows (at least, not that Metacity knows about).
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