I know I'm not the only 'power' keyboard user in the group. Many of us alt+tab or superkey+(whatever) to get around. I'm completely fine with the removal. Min/Max is just old-old school way to do things.
-Chris On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:06 AM, John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
