On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 07:54 -0800, Sandy Armstrong wrote: > (What happened to your mail client line-wrapping settings?) > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Owen Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > The maximize button > > =================== > > > > The above was about minimization - but the request was also to remove the > > maximize button. This is a little different since there are more obvious > > ways to maximize a window - the drag to the top gesture or double-clicking > > on the title bar - we're not really talking about removing the feature of > > maximization but just the button. > > I generally applaud the bold changes happening in the shell, but I > disagree with removing the maximize/restore button. I'll paste here a > comment I wrote on Allan's blog: > > 1) Drag-and-drop is very difficult on touchpads, and most people these > days are buying laptops. Drag-and-drop is also undiscoverable. > 2) Double-clicking the title-bar is undiscoverable.
I agree with these reasons. May I also add one more - double clicking is terrible. Firstly, I always opt for single click (recovering RSI/OOS). Secondly, how many computer users *still* have no idea what double clicking does; the kind of people who double click on *everything*, links in websites, menus, buttons, or keep double clicking on applications while waiting for them to start. Admittedly it is usually windows users who I observe doing this, but I think it is wrong to assume that users; a) know that double click exists b) can actually distinguish that it is different from single click I would prefer the approach of 'one foot in the old and one in the new'. maximize for the old, dragging for the new. I still know windows 7 users who don't use aero snap, so keeping maximize not only retains familiarity for them, but current gnome2 users too. John _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
