Cannot drag panels to different edges of screen

[DanielRoesler]

In Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 alpha (2/9/09 daily build), you cannot drag the menu panels from their location on the top and bottom edges of the screen. You can add panels to the side edges of the screen, however, you can't move panels from their default location. Is this on purpose? You could drag the panels to different edges in Intrepid Ibex 8.10.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's not a bug you need to use alt to do a dnd or change in the preference dialog

[Arthur Peters (amp)]

This might be a documentation bug since older versions allowed drag without alt. I spent a good while trying to figure this out.

Maybe a mention of this should be put somewhere in the release notes or other documentation.

That being said I think the change is reasonable. You don't need to drag panels often so having to hold alt is not a problem and it might prevent accidental moves.

[Alex French (grackle)]

I found this very confusing as well. There is nothing to indicate that dragging the panel now requires the user to hold down alt. The gnome-panel help only says "Drag a panel to another side of the screen to move it there. Click on any vacant space on the panel to begin the drag."

The "orientation" setting in the panel properties dialog would be sufficient, except there are no options for moving the panel to separate monitors.

[Alex French (grackle)]

Hmm, I just noticed another problem.. When I go to System->Preferences->Windows and change my movement key to Super, I can no longer drag the panel. Ctrl and Alt work fine.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This is related to bug #83286.