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Widgets may not be windows, but they are rectangular objects which people want to re-size and move. We are all used to re-sizing and moving objects by using drag targets. This is not just windows but objects in applications. Taking a screen shot of a Region of the screen use drag targets in KDE-4.3.
The three important things in GUI design are 1. Consistency, 2. Consistency, 3. Consistency. :-D This is an old joke but it is true.
I know how the current method is supposed to work. I do not like this little margin tag things. I find the current method of resizing and moving to be difficult to use -- understanding how it works does not help with that. Part of this is that there is no snapping to the edge of the frame. This user wants to precisely arrange his desktop and the current method is not well suited to doing that.
IMHO, this is a usability issue and it needs to be addressed. We need a different method of re-sizing and moving widgets. IIRC, in KDE-3.x, people were asking for dragable Panels, so this isn't exactly a new idea or request.
I am not saying that we have to use drag targets. KDE-3.5 uses slider/spin-box combination widgets to size things. So, I would be happy with a dialog box with a set of these to re-size and move stuff.