https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480072
--- Comment #2 from djhbr...@gmail.com --- thanks for replying, Nate. the bug being reported here is described by the title of the bug report, namely :"cannot disable window drag on left click in window (kdenlive) bloody annoying" to clarify, it's a behaviour that occurs in Xubuntu (i can't speak for Ubuntu), which occurs in the following situation: ordinarily, to change the timeline zoom, or to move the timeline cursor, you click on the (zoom or cursor) icon, hold the mouse button down and slide the icon to where you want it. but if you are clumsy like me, and/or your eyes aren't what they should be, you will miss your mouse target by a single pixel, and the software will fondly imagine you intended to miss the icon a pixel away and assume you intended to click on the background instead, which of course, nobody in their right mind would ever want to do, ever, right?! grrr!. unless you're Yehudi Menuhin or Stephan Grapelli, the older you get, the clumsier you get, and in my case i was clumsy when when young, so you can imagine what it's like now. i've been using kdenlive for about 10 years, but don't remember how long it's been since it started doing this to me; i only remember that it didn't used to do it in the old days, but now it does and it drove me nuts, so nuts that i filed the bug report not expecting a response. i have studied in minute detail every single page on internet - and there's millions of them - and i can report with authority that (a) i'm not the only one, and (b) nobody knows what to do about it, except move to another planet. the behaviour (the software's behaviour that is, not mine (mine is beyond help)) is strictly speaking more of a "design feature" bug in the head of the software designer rather than an implementation bug. and, as it happens, since posting the bug report, i solved it but forgot to add a comment about that until i saw your own comment asking what the hell i am talking about. so.. if you haven't clicked and dragged off already by now, here is the explanation and solution: it turns out it's not a kdenlive bug after all, but a kde window manager one. it seems some twonk had the great idea of enabling click and drag anywhere within a window background, not just on its top bar like normal people do. kde users can switch this idiotic "feature" off, but xfce users can't because they don't get access to the different (to xfce's) window drawing suite controls that kde uses. if you can identify the kde interface designer that designed it, i would be happy to go round to his place, haul him off to the Algerian desert, and bury him up to his neck in sand for the ants and vultures to peck at. BUT... i solved it! It tuns out that all you have to do is change the "Settings... Color theme" to "Fusion" This applies to kdenlive 21.04.0 which i'm sticking with because 23.nn.n has all sort of other nasties that are even more intolerable and they are so bad i don't even want to start talking about them - which is one good thing for customer service operators :) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
