Woohoo! I (sort of) figured it out and created a branch implementing this change on Launchpad. So far it's more a proof of concept than anything else.
The branch is here: code.launchpad.net/~dylanmccall/metacity/drag-from-anywhere To test this, you will need to run "./src/metacity --replace" after building. I don't recommend installing this over your current Metacity. (Yet). Works beautifully for preferences dialogs. Strangely, the expected behaviour does not occur with menu bars or toolbars, which seems a bit odd. Perhaps GTK is handling the events when it doesn't need to. Everywhere else it is wonderful -- and yes, that includes the status bar in F-Spot. (Eat that, Windows Photo Gallery!). No broken functionality detected so far, but I should get in touch with the Metacity developers to make sure... At the moment, a middle click and a right click in the client area pops up the respective actions as if the area is in fact a title bar. It's kind of neat, but I think it would be better with different operations. For example, middle click could do a resize operation (dealing with the small window borders problem in a small way). I should make this a gconf option. Maybe "touch screen mode", with another added bonus being kinetic window dragging? -Dylan
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