"Lutger" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > Ok, looks like this is specific for the linux chrome version. You have to > right-click in the chrome title bar btw, not just anywhere. > > I do agree though that apps should respect or at least enable title bar > decoration and theming. (Note that microsoft apps like office 2007 do not > do > this!) Most, if not all, linux window managers can be configured to force > system titlebar decorations, perhaps it is also possible under windows.
One of the millions of projects I would be working on if I had time: A cross-platform GUI system that allowed 100% native look & feel, but also had an easy-to-use config program that allows the user to make/save/install skins (including highly-configurable skins, such as the "classic" Windows style, where f***ing everything can be adjusted - something that is idiotically missing in all so-called "modern" themes like Aero and Aqua). The user can set these themes on both a system-wide level and on an app-by-app basis. Theme settings would also affect the system's native Aero/Aqua/WinClassic/Gnome/KDE/etc settings to whatever extent is actually possible (Naturally, this means it would work best, by far, on Linux, but without MS or Apple taking notice, that can't be helped.) Also, it would provide automatic protection against the now-epidemic invisible-text-syndrome by having the API designed so that it's impossible for a programmer to accidentally set up foreground/background colors with one being system-default and the other being manually-specified (something that should *never* happen, but is done *constantly* in both applications and websites, hell, .NET's WinForms even has cases where you *can't* fix it). IMO, there is *NO* excuse for any modern windowing system *not* to work this way. I mean, crap, ***Windows 3.x*** was already most of the way there. All it was missing was a way to set things on an app-by-app basis and support for alternate rendering (and the invisible-text protection, but IIRC, developers back then weren't in the habit of making that mistake quite like they are now). I can understand Win3 missing those things, but I find it nothing short of truly pathetic that in the *20* years since, not only have we not been able to make that *little* bit of advancement, but things have actually gone *backwards*.
