Re: 3rd party application integration guidelines - how to be a good shell citizen?

[Lucas David-Roesler <roesler lucas gmail com>]

> as a plain user, i'd really love to see some consistency there. the use of
> the close button became sort of a chaos, and now i have to remember
> individually for each application whether the X in the top-right corner will
> actually close it, or just hide it somewhere (i.e. Banshee used to close
> properly, but since it has systemtray/indicator support, it just gets
> hidden). now i am using keyboard shortcuts to manage this, but even there i
> found some inconsistency: some apps close with ctrl+w, some with ctrl+q, so
> the user has to remember individually again for each app how to actually
> shut it down.
> imho, it would be great to have a second button on the titlebar for hiding
> windows. and i don't necessarily mean minimizing here, but it would be great
> to know that the X does close the app, and the other button for example can
> put it on a new workspace, or something. just to get it out of sight (so you
> don't need to go nto activities mode and drag&drop it on another workspace).
> there could be some showing the user that the app has been moved to another
> workspace (like the workspaces sidebar showing up, and the app going there
> with some "minimize" effect).

 
+1 for consistency in the close button.  I would also love to see a button to send window to another workplace.

~Lucas David-Roesler