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While I do like the idea of maximized windows losing their redundant title bar, the problem with your complete idea is you cannot close or minimize an unfocused window. > Subject: Re: Is the Minimize button still useful with gnome-shell ? > From: saunierthibault gmail com > To: francois jaouen laposte net > Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:56:36 -0300 > CC: gnome-shell-list gnome org > > Hello, > > I have thought a bit about this issue, and my question is what is the > titlebar for? I think there is plenty of unused space on this bar, and > it would be better to simply remove it when the window is maximized > (that's what I have done for a while here). I am actually thinking about > something like how ubuntu-netbook-remix works with maximus > ( http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3mLd5CtlHo4/S6l9bmok2DI/AAAAAAAAHNc/Wr382QvcqEY/s800/Screenshot.png), we would have a button to close (unmaximise could be a double > click or we could also have another button) the window on the top panel > (along with the icon of the current application), and when we click on > this little application icon, we could have an animation to show that > the window goes to the top left, which means the overview (it could be > in another place if we decide to change it). > > When the window isn't maximized, we would have a titlebar (still the > same way as it works with ubuntu-netbook-remix/maximus), this titlebar > would have only a "maximize' button, the window icon on the top panel > would have a cross to close the application, and click on this icon > would have the same effect as before (show that the window is going to > the overview). > > I hope you understand what I mean, and that it could help us all! I > would like to have opinons about this idea. > > ps: sorry for not create mockups but I am to bad at it! > > > On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 22:55 +0100, François Jaouen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > (My previous post seems to have vanished away so here is my second try) > > > > I've started to play with the very promising gnome-shell and, at first, > > I was quite confused when I minimized a window and saw it disappeared > > around the Activities label without any clue to restore it back ! > > > > Then I remembered that gnome-shell is all about using several workspaces > > and I decided to leave my habit of working with only one workspace (ten > > years of MS Windows practice is bound to take its toll) and started to > > organize my windows into several workspaces. Half an hour later, I was > > very comfortable with it. > > > > Hence my (open) question : Is the Minimize button still useful with > > gnome-shell ? Wouldn't it be more in sync with gnome-shell to have > > instead a collapse behind the title bar behavior as in emerald (double > > click on the title bar) ? > > > > François > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-shell-list mailing list > > gnome-shell-list gnome org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. Get started. |