Re: Is the Minimize button still useful with gnome-shell ?

[Rovanion Luckey <rovanion luckey gmail com>]

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Yeah, that makes sense. The left side of the window could have "left"
and "right" buttons for workspace switching (makes the feature more
obvious to new users). It'd make it look a little more "balanced" (two
buttons on each side), wouldn't it? The program icon can go right
before the window title (saves space and looks better than sitting in
the corner IMO).
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Tough the one does not have to exclude the other as my friend here pointed out. Sometimes you simply want a a window to go away for a while, not having it pop up on another workspace. So removing this feature goes against Gnome Shell guidelines dictating that the user should be able to work in a focused manner on a task. The user would not be able to hide away ie chatwindows effectively.

And on the balancing point. I don't know if that would result in the title bar being any more "balanced" since the movement-buttons could range from zero to four. Or maybe there should always be one button visible even tough there is only one workspace open, and this button would open up a second workspace and then move the window to that workspace.

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