Re: [Usability]fullscreen mode

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

Hrm. Terminals seem like a strange thing to have fullscreen, but I guess
web browsers seem a little weird to me too. It just doesn't seem that
bad to lose a few dozen pixels of height from the screen for a titlebar
*shrug*. 

Be that as it may, if we're going to have a rash of applications that
support fullscreen we should come up with a standard for doing it (and
more importantly...a standard for getting *out* of it!).

-Seth

On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 17:36, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Various apps such as Galeon have a "fullscreen mode."
> 
> This can be done in the window manager window menu, but my misgivings
> are:
>  - it adds yet another thing to the window menu
>  - if you don't know about Alt+rightclick to get a window 
>    menu on the client area, you can't get out of fullscreen 
>    mode once you're in it
>  - it probably doesn't make sense for some apps 
>    (though it could of course be insensitive for non-resizable windows)
> 
> It can also be done in the app as it usually is now, the possible down
> side is less consistency.
> 
> I did it in the app for now, in gnome-terminal. But I thought I'd
> troll for opinions anyhow. ;-)
> 
> Havoc
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