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. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:[email protected] Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
