Re: Add un-maximize and close button to the top pad

[Ralph Hofmann <hofmann2004 arcor de>]

Am 10.07.2011 19:03, schrieb Patrick Niedzielski:
> On 7/6/2011 10:11 PM, Donato Marrazzo wrote:
> > Since I use maximus to remove the title bar when the window is 
> > maximized, I'd like add close and unmaximize button to the activity 
> > icon on the top pad.
> > I think that it should become the default behaviour for the gnome shell.
> > What do you think about?
> >
> > Donato
> >
> >
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> Hi Donato,
>
> My first reaction is to say this ought to be in an extension, but I 
> may be misunderstanding what you're asking.  Are you suggesting that 
> Close Window and Unmaximize Window should be in the menu that appears 
> when you click on the application menu?  Or do you want unmaximize and 
> close to be permanently visible on the panel?
>
> With regard to the first one, application menus are still being worked 
> on, but the consensus seems to be that they are for application 
> commands, not window commands.  An example of an application command 
> might be "create new document", something that deals not with windows 
> an application happens to have open, but instead with tasks the 
> application presents to the user.
>
> The second one would be better as an extension.  Maximize isn't 
> available in GNOME Shell through any Shell command, and maximus is a 
> third party application. This isn't the place to discuss this 
> decision, as it has been discussed to death already.  Integration with 
> it thus should not be default behavior.  An extension, for users with 
> a similar setup, could be written.  From a UI design point, as well, 
> it doesn't make much sense (to me, at least), to have an unmaximize 
> button on the panel, but no maximize button.  Adding these buttons 
> would also clutter the top panel.  For you, this may not be an issue, 
> but on netbooks and small laptop screens, this would be detrimental.  
> By placing this in an extension, it gives users the ability to turn it 
> on if necessary, but *only* if necessary.  Most users don't need this, 
> so it doesn't seem like a good candidate for a modification of default 
> behavior.
>
> If you want to write yourself an extension to do this, email me 
> offlist, and I'll point you to a tutorial on how to do this.  If you'd 
> rather not write this extension yourself, you could possibly ask 
> someone who works on maximus to code something?  Don't assume they 
> will, though, because they may not be familiar with GNOME Shell 
> development.
>
> Cheers,
> Patrick Niedzielski
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Hi everybody,

I am using Gnome3 since about one week now with Archlinux. I am coming 
from Gnome2 + Compiz. Compiz has a lot of useless stuff but also some 
very usefull plugins which can help to interact with the desktop by 
keyboard only. That's what I am looking for.

In my opinion Gnome3 should offer at least the option to remove 
titlebars of maximised windows dependent on the application. With Gnome2 
+ Compiz that's possible and it's just good.

I close my applications with Ctrl-q and don't need a close button.  And 
I don't need a title bar either, because seeing the content of the 
window seems enough to me.

For people who would like to have buttons: Wouldn't it be possble, to 
add them to to the menu bar of the applications? Normaly there is a lot 
of free space.

Just my five cents.

Kind regards

Ralph Hofmann