[PATCH weston] compositor: add a mouse motion binding type

Matthias Clasen matthias.clasen at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 13:34:11 PDT 2013


On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kristian Høgsberg wrote:

>
> I was completely confusing corners of surfaces with corners of outputs,
> sorry. He is talking about fixed locations on the screen that are usually
> called "hot corners" and other terms.
>
> I think however that "hot corners" like he is describing might be better
> described as special invisible surfaces. They could be implemented by
> clients as well as by the shell, and could be subject to stacking order. It
> would also make it obvious that drags do not trigger the hot corner effect,
> though it may be triggered after the mouse is released.
>

Just speaking for GNOME shell here, we actually do want the hot corner
to trigger during dnd - it is useful to go to the overview and drop
your load on a window or workspace in there, sometimes.


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