On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 17:14, Conscious User <consciousu...@aol.com> wrote: > My personal suggestion would be dropping the title in the panel as > mpt suggested, but keeping the idea of merging the titlebar and the > panel. This means dropping the title entirely in the maximized > case, yes. I don't think anyone would really care. > > For fixing the gap, I'm going to suggest something controversial, > but that I wanted to suggest for a long time anyway: dropping the > minimize and maximize buttons, following Gnome3's direction and > under their same arguments. > > This would leave only the space of a single close button to worry > about and this could be addressed by something with a fixed size > that does not need to be truncated: AN ICON.
Awesome. Just awesome. This fixes everything, doesn't it? > Matter of fact, I WOULD suggest placing this icon even when the > window is maximized and storing a menu with window management > options in it, just like you already have depending on your > metacity settings. Close *is* a destructive function you > don't want near "File", after all... But I won't seriously > support this second suggestion for the moment, because I > suspect that would make closefests of maxmized windows too > inneficient, and this is bad for netbook users. > > Thoughts? I do see a problem with that last one: how is a user going to figure out how to close the window? An (X) button has familiar meaning, but an application specific icon is probably not the first place a user would look. Also, now your icon menu and File menu are located next to each other and have the same item at the end: Close. -- Remco _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
