Re: full-screen mode and fitt's law

[Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>]

Lex Hider wrote:
> My proposal is that it would be preferable for the tab-bar and
> location/tool-bar to swap positions.

You've forgotten one big drawback of this proposal: what happens if a 
fullscreen window has a single tab? Either the tab-bar disappears (in 
which case the top of the screen actually changes) or the single tab 
remains (in which case Fitt's Law dictates you're wasting corners). It's 
not worth changing fullscreen mode (which in this case would be a 
non-trivial change) to make something less consistent to the user and 
ultimately less Fitt's-Law-abiding.

> What is the reason for the status bar not being available in full-screen
> mode? I personally would prefer it to be visible.

I imagine it's to save space. There's probably a thread about this 
somewhere but I don't know where.

> Finally, are epiphany developers aware that the exit full-screen
> remains visible even if I change to another application via ALT+TAB or
> move to a different "virtual workspace".

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115296

> Lex.
>
> PS - Can someone please point me to a previous thread where tab close
> button on tab versus mozilla style tab close button has been discussed.

I don't know off-hand, sorry.

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Adam Hooper
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