> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
>> anyway, which qtractor dialogs doesn't fit on nowadays screensizes? i
>> mean, which ones are bigger than 800x600 ? please tell me
>
>
http://nielsmayer.com/meego/qtractor-dialogs-meego.png
>
> Note the oversized "Options" dialog with hidden Ok/Cancel. You can't
> move the top of the window offscreen so there's no way to reach it
> other than using kb-accels to reach "Ok" or for
> "Cancel." Also, note the spinbuttons for mixer attenuation and a few
> others clip the text displaying the value (which also happens for me
> on my Fedora/KDE4.4 desktop, but its more legible because i use a
> larger font normally).
>
> Here's how I have the screen layout/fonts customized to make things
> work on meego:
>
http://nielsmayer.com/meego/qtractor-meego.png
>
> Note that to get it this way (due to oversize dialog issue) I had to
> start it on a remote X server and then setup the fonts to the smallest
> size, confirmed, exited, and then restarted qtractor on meego netbook
> display.
>
> The same results and layouts occur for both
> qtractor i686 0.4.6-1.fc13 rpmfusion-free-updates 802 k
> (installed using
>
http://nielsmayer.com/meego/fedora13+rpmfusion+planetccrma-repos.README
>
http://nielsmayer.com/meego/fedora13+rpmfusion+planetccrma-repos.tgz )
> as well as this latest version, which I compiled successfully on meego
> using development libs from the aforementioned repo hack).
>
>> yes, ALT+righ-click for drag&move a window is a X11 standard and it
>> should work on qtractor. unless meego is not X11 based, which i find
>> very unprobable
>
> Actuallly, the keybindings for the window manager have
> nothing to do with
> the X11 standard, since that's entirely the domain of the window
> manager. Improving on X10, the X11 standard attempted to get out of
> the way of window management by making it an application in and of
> itself (e.g. twm, mwm, metacity, kwin) and making window management a
> protocol part of the X11 standard. Various desktop standards, from
> Motif, CDE, OpenLook and probably Gnome and KDE all have specific
> bindings, or lack of bindings to invoke the window manager within an
> application.
>
> I would imagine a window manager such as used in meego would not have
> a lot of keyboard accelerators for expert users given the target is
> netbooks, tablets, set top boxes, automotive/flight entertainment,
> etc.
>