> <sigh> maybe I'll try this, but I just hate discussing policies. I think > it's a rather strange feature and people who've mailed me used much > stronger terms. The metacity guys obviously think it is an essential > feature, otherwise they wouldn't have hardcoded it into the wm. > > I think I'll throw out a modified testing src.rpm first in order to > build my case. When discussing policies, and I fear the problem is > because of policy, there's nothing more convincing than dl numbers.
You could propose to add a config option to allow/disable this move-out-of-screen feature. It won't be hard to add and it could be disabled by default to make Havoc happy :-)