On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Jeff Lasman <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote: > On Tuesday, March 08, 2011 12:12:08 am Chris Penn wrote: > >> I think this is nuts, I use minimize all the time; Am I the only one? > > I agree with you. Another reason why I'm at the moment sticking with the > problematic kde. > > Of course his email doesn't address the real reason (in my opinion): they > don't want it to look in any way like MS Windows. > > Jeff
Or maybe they just want the real estate back and remove confusion for newbies when their window disappears due to accidentally clicking minimize. It's nice that they are thinking outside the box in improving the UI. I'm fairly sure users could live without minimize but it is a shift in thinking. As the email states, there is no minimize when everything is full screen. You just switch windows. This is fast becoming the dominant mode of accessing computers if you think about mobile devices. On the desktop there are full screen and tiled window managers that obviate minimize. You can use desktop switching which is much more efficient once you get used to it. Minimize is slow for most users since you have to visually find the button which is window relative. Always somewhere different. But desktop switcher is always in the same spot. I'm not saying they should do it, but it's not immediately apparent that it's a terrible idea, and it has some things going for it. -- John. _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
