Re: minimize-to-tile would make for a more seamless experience

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:23 AM, William Jon McCann <william jon mccann gmail com> wrote:

Hey Johannes,

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> ATM I find myself switching to activities overview  very often just to
>> find a minimized (or obscured) window. As others have pointed out, this
>> has two disadvantages:
>
> Wasn't the original design to remove the minimize button alltogether?
> Haven't heard of this in a while though.

Yes.   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604237

I thought we were on track for that but it seems not.  I recommend
that everyone make that gconf change to disable min and max buttons
though.  I've been using it that way.

This might prove controversial, I think we'll need to put a FAQ on it on gnome3.org to explain the design decision on it.  Personally, this will work well as long as the transition to overview is fast enough.

sri