Nicolas:
http://superuser.com/questions/96220/how-to-disable-maximize-on-top-drag

Best,
Karl

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Nicolas Cellier <
nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:

> The reasons why I personnally hate this maximizing thing are these ones:
> - I generally have kind of portrait oriented documents best viewed with
> tall viewport (not wide)
> - my screen is too wide but that's ok to view 2 documents side by side, or
> 1 document with 2 pages side by side alternatively.
> - i often resize/move the windows to obtain side by side view (for
> comparison, drag and drop etc...)
> alas, since my windows are tall, they are most of the time near top, and i
> more than often have to undo the UN-INTENDED maximization.
>
> There are at least two other ways to maximize the window, so this gesture
> is never going to be on purpose from myself, if only I knew how to disable
> it :(
>
>
> 2016-01-11 22:39 GMT+01:00 Jakob Reschke <jakob.reschke at student.hpi.de>:
>
>> In Windows, I tend to like both maximizing a window when it is dragged
>> to the top of the screen and tiling a window when dragged to the left
>> or right edge of the screen. Not sure why I find the first one more
>> intuitive than double clicking the title bar or the window decoration
>> button for it. Maybe it's that gross motion thing Chris mentioned.
>> Just today, I came to dislike once again that the tiling does not work
>> on the inner edges in a dual screen setup. Though, it is possible that
>> I would change my mind if it worked and it would trigger all the time.
>> Anyway, it is achievable with Win-key+Left/Right.
>>
>> On the other hand, I am not so keen on maximizing a window in only one
>> direction (vertically or horizontally) if I drag an edge of the window
>> to the edge of the screen. Windows has that for the vertical
>> direction.
>>
>> But I cannot remember the last time I wanted to maximize a
>> SystemWindow in Squeak... usually I find screen space to be more
>> precious (scarce?) here because there is no web browser or dedicated
>> text editor window, but rather a plethora of smaller windows floating
>> around, each of them preferably only one click away. And I like to
>> spare a hole somewhere to access the world menu... Maybe these habits
>> are also a result of the lack of an Alt+Tab or Exposé like feature by
>> default.
>>
>> 2016-01-11 22:01 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Cellier <
>> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:
>> > I wanted to comment that there's even more upsetting: the maximize
>> feature
>> > of windows 7 when dragging a window near display edge.
>> > But as long as we can disable the preference, it's ok for me.
>> >
>> > 2016-01-11 20:20 GMT+01:00 Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>:
>> >>
>> >> Bernhard, please don't take this as offense but just as someone who's
>> >> interested in UI design -- I'm curious what people find to like about
>> >> this feature.  I myself was so disappointed when Ubuntu did this to
>> >> Unity because being able to grab a window edge and slam the mouse to
>> >> the edge of the screen is an easy gross-motor gesture that facilitates
>> >> efficient window management; affording expansion in the desired
>> >> dimensions, and no expansion where it isn't desired.  However, with
>> >> this feature the user is now forced to "be careful" when dragging
>> >> their window edges (don't get too close to the edge!) and so what was
>> >> a gross-motor became a fine-motor AND their mind is distracted this
>> >> having to wreste with the UI, because they want to make use of their
>> >> screen real-estate but, at least in Unity, when you get within 4
>> >> pixels of the edge, SNAP.  Now its covering many other windows I
>> >> didn't want covered, whilst presenting vast swaths of useless
>> >> whitespace (because its too big).
>> >>
>> >> I never much liked Operation...   :)
>> >>
>> >>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6MAkLJ79LE
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Dear all,
>> >> >
>> >> > I implemented a feature which some of you may know from Windows.
>> When a
>> >> > SystemWindow is dragged to one of the edges it is resized to that
>> half of
>> >> > the display. In addition, when it is dragged to one of the corners
>> it is
>> >> > resized to that quadrant of the display. See the following packages
>> in the
>> >> > Inbox:
>> >> > - GraphicsTests-bp.39
>> >> > - Graphics-bp.321
>> >> > - Morphic-bp.1064
>> >> > In order to use it you need to enable the preference Drag To Edges in
>> >> > the Preference Browser, or just do:
>> >> > SystemWindow dragToEdges: true
>> >> >
>> >> > If you have time to try it out, let me know what you think.
>> >> >
>> >> > - Bernhard
>> >>
>> >
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