On Nov 9, 2009, at 13:05 , Marcos Caceres wrote:
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Robin Berjon <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Nov 1, 2009, at 18:06 , Marcos Caceres wrote:
2009/10/5 Robin Berjon <[email protected]>:
it seems to me that there's a missing distinction in our list of
view
modes: the difference between maximised and fullscreen (or perhaps
fullscreen and all-screen).
Maximised is the case in which the application takes up the entire
available screen space minus a little bit of chrome either for
itself (a
window bar with a title and perhaps some buttons) or for the
system (task
bar, menu clock, etc.); whereas fullscreen is when the viewport
is the same
size as the screen (e.g. for video playback).
Both desktops and phones tend to have this distinction in one way
or
another, so it sounds to me as something that we should expose as
well.
I think application mode already covers this if the application is
maximized as you defined it.
If application is maximised, then what is the keyword that
describes a
window that has chrome but isn't occupying the entirety of the
space that
windows can?
That would be 'application', but not maximized.
Uh, but those can be two different windowing modes, with the chrome
subtly different and different behaviour (e.g. the window can't be
dragged if maximised).
Or are you thinking about this in terms of the broken OSX UI that
can't tell the difference? If so, I strongly object — it's a usability
nightmare.
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Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/
