Re: [Usability] Closing windows with doubleclick

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Mar 16, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Markus Jonsson wrote:
> ...
> But it does work for MS Windows.
> ...

It's a remnant of Windows 3, when windows didn't have close buttons, so  
double-clicking on the menu button was the easiest way of closing a  
window. It's been quite unnecessary since Windows 95, when windows  
gained their own close buttons. Microsoft highlighted its obsolete  
status when they said:

    ... Also, define Close as the default command, so when the user
    double-clicks the title bar icon, the window closes ...

    When the user clicks the title bar icon using the primary mouse
    button, the system also displays the shortcut menu for the
    window. This behavior is supported only for compatibility with
    previous versions of Windows. Avoid documenting it as the
    primary way to access the shortcut menu for the window.

    --  
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwue/ 
html/ch07c.asp

So by the time somebody implements it in Metacity, Windows may well  
finally have dropped it like the nasty idea it is.

--
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/