Don't move window when clicking and dragging on sidebar

[ruanswanepoel]

First of all I really like Zen, and I know it's in early stages.

The issue here is that if you click and drag on the empty space in the sidebar, it will move the window as if clicking and dragging the toolbar. And so the window collapses to a small non-fullscreen window.

This is pretty annoying, and it happens to me almost every day.

I've noticed that the sidebar also has no movement threshold for the cursor either, so 1 pixel is enough to register a click and drag event on the sidebar. Compare this to the toolbar which is more forgiving; you can click and drag a few pixels without the window registering a click and drag event.

If this is intended behavior on the sidebar, at least make it more forgiving like the toolbar, and even better provide a setting to switch it off, because I don't think this is very normal for sidebars to behave like this.

[skrubbles]

Agree with everything you said. I somehow manage to move the Zen window multiple times per day and then have to nudge it back. It's not the end of the world, but it's fairly annoying.

Arc behaves the same way, but it's not as sensitive as Zen. There's a little leeway when clicking and dragging the sidebar so that you don't accidentally move the browser window.

I'd love to be able to turn off the ability to move the window via the sidebar, but if the top bar is turned off we still need a way to move the browser. If possible, it'd be nice to limit this to the top of the sidebar that contains the window buttons, extensions, and URL bar. And remove the ability to click-and-drag the browser in the section of the sidebar that contains tabs.

[sporocyst]

I love this clicking and dragging feature. Maybe it is because my hand is stable enough or my mouse has low sensitivity, the issue never happens to me.

[Omegastick]

How would you guys feel about reducing the sensitivity a bit, so you have to move the cursor some minimum distance before it kicks in. Right now the click turns into a drag pretty quickly.

[AwesomeParley]

This should be a setting in about:config. I use the sidebar to move the browser and haven't had any issues with accidentally moving the browser.

I will say that if it's a big enough issue for people, (which I have seen many people complain about it), it should at least have a setting to change the sensitivity.

[AwesomeParley]

I'd like to update that I have now had it happen once.

[ellsong]

This issue drives me nuts, I accidentally pull the window out of full screen mode when trying to click a tab multiple times a day. It is incredibly sensitive. I would really like for a way to disable this and only have dragging enabled from the title bar. This is how Arc works and it was the right call.

[fergalmoran]

At least once a day, one of my top 5 bugbears with Zen.

[AwesomeParley]

Has there been an issue made for this yet?

[MrScottyTay]

I actually like this because it means I don't need to have empty space up at the top and can keep my sidebar as thin as possible and still retain the ability to move the window. If this gets changed it should be an option to turn on/off. I hope they go that route so everyone gets it to work how they want/need it to.

[vleeuwenmenno]

I agree with having a toggle for this, I am running COSMIC on Pop!_OS and when I accidentally click slightly too long on my browser it causes my entire layout to shift due to the nature of the tiling workspace management which really sucks.

[clins1994]

Hey guys I just downloaded Zen and started using it today. I immediately noticed this and after searching about it landed here. Is it true that this isn't configurable and that no one made a mod for it yet ?

One thing from the thread I can't tell is what environment y'all are on. Currently I'm on MacOS and using the trackpad. I read that the creators/maintainers of zen don't use mac. I wonder if its a mac specific issue?

I have a pretty small screen (13") and use a window management tool (raycast) when re-sizing or moving windows. I don't need to drag at all. Please add a toggle button 😅

[clins1994]

EDIT: this discussion seems unrelated to the issue I was having so I removed my comment and link to issue

[ruanswanepoel]

@clins1994 I'm not sure that's the same bug as described in this discussion. It seems like you're talking about just cliking the sidebar. In my case if I just click the sidebar (without moving the mouse pointer a single pixel) then nothing happens. However if I click and my mouse pointer moves even a single pixel, the whole window moves and shifts the whole layout.

FYI: I'm on Windows 10

[AwesomeParley]

Yep, it's not the same issue.

[clins1994]

@ruanswanepoel ahh I see. Looks like I misunderstood. Sorry about that. I'll update the issue to not reference this discussion.

[listao]

I'm a recent convert to Zen as well on my windows machine (still Arc on my Mac), and I'm struggling with this as well. Has there been any movement on this yet?

[AwesomeParley]

I haven't seen any, but I also haven't been looking.