The Old New Thing

If it's possible to do something, then it's possible to do something WRONG

May 23, 2011 May 23, 2011 05/23/11

Raymond Chen

Once you make it possible to do something, you have to accept that you also made it possible to do something wrong. When the window manager was originally designed, it made it possible for programs to override many standard behaviors. They could handle the message so a window can be dragged by grabbing any part of the window, not just the...