On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 16:24 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > I think the Gnome Shell designers are badly underestimating the use > cases for minimize.
No, they havent. I take it you havent read Owen's Mail on the Shell ML.. :-) They know what use-cases they havent fixed (or dont have a better solution for). Minimize just doesnt fit their design. > And anyone who thinks dragging is a replacement for > a maximize button probably hasn't done any user testing recently. "Maximize" is not a feature we should be encouraging, *anywhere* ! It is a workaround for a broken window management. Why in the world does the *user* need to constantly maximize/restore? Apps need to open the windows with the right size. And any app which requires the user to constantly resize is broken. For apps requiring a maximum size, window should just open so. Right now, for any alternate *custom* size one would require to either: 1- restore a maximized window and - then resize to custom size or 2- resize a window from the normal state to custom size Maximize just makes it harder to get to custom sizes. Why even have it ? (I hope maximize just gets killed, only then will apps fix at their end. ;p) I seriously dont understand why this fascination for resizing/resize grips exists. I'm not saying that resize feature should not even exist, but Resize is something user should not even care about, and should spend less time doing. -- Cheers, Vish _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
