On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 00:55 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: > You are reading/understanding things too literally.
> Let me rephrase that more clearly, When I said "In an ideal world there > should be no need for maximize/restore" , it just meant we should not > _have_ to do window resize often. > I'm *not* suggesting the removal of the ability to resize and that > everything be done only automatically. Well, you didn't say I was supposed to understand them metaphorically. =) But if all you're saying is that GNOME should try to be smarter about initial sizes (and, possibly, dynamic resizing/tiling) so that manual resizing becomes less necessary, sure, I can get all the way behind that. I was just worried about the idea of taking it to its 'logical extension' - your 'ideal world' scenario where manual maximizing / resizing become unnecessary. If we're not going there, then no problem, go ahead. > But, IMO, this outcry for removal of the maximize button seems a very > disproportionate to the actual need and does not focus on the cause of > the problem which requires user to resize often. > If we were to restore the maximize button, it would not be the right > solution, it would only be a workaround. I'm not hugely bothered either way about the maximize button, personally. You only have to learn 'double-click on the window bar' once and it's just as easy as clicking a maximize button. As a general principle, the removal of features with _no easy alternative_ bothers me much more than the removal of one of many different ways to do something, as long as one of the other ways is not inherently more difficult. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list