Re: Window controls for GNOME 3
- From: Calum Benson <calum benson oracle com>
- To: William Jon McCann <william jon mccann gmail com>
- Cc: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>, gnome-shell-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Window controls for GNOME 3
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 13:42:35 +0000
On 1 Mar 2011, at 21:36, William Jon McCann wrote:
> I don't have any plans to drop the symbolic close button but some
> successful designs have done this already. WebOS uses a close gesture
> and no on screen explicit controls. iOS on iPad mostly does away will
> all forms of window management but in some cases (secondary windows)
> uses a "Done" button instead of the symbolic version.
Most secondary windows in GNOME 2.x were never supposed to have a symbolic close button anyway (at least from the HIG/usability team's POV), because for those windows where there's a choice of dismissal options, it's not clear whether closing the window that way means 'OK' or 'Cancel', for example.
For many years I was told it was a metacity bug that we couldn't hide it altogether, but I don't know whether that was eventually fixed -- I haven't chased it up for a while :)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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