On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Didier Roche <[email protected]> wrote: > So, after a talk with the design team, it seems that we would rather for > natty focus on fixing this bug: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/723882 which is connected to > Dylan's work, but only applied to dragging downward and double-clicking > on an empty space. > > Dylan? are you interested to make this change for natty from your > branch?
Ah, excellent. I was thinking it would be good to split this report into two tasks, since the buttons are a much more aggressive change. If I understand correctly, the branch as it is satisfies bug #723882. I'll leave a comment there just to be sure. Thank you! Paul: Yeah, the buttons are a trickier thing. We have a funny confusion between title bars and window menus because this space is being used so frequently. I think it's important to treat title bars as physical objects that are directly attached to their own windows and never go away. People are just used to that. We should be thinking of the window / application title as attached to the menu, and not to the title bar. (The title bar is a “title” in name only). It isn't totally logical, but I don't think anyone right now reads the title on his Firefox window and thinks “okay, that says Firefox. If I drag this, I'll be moving the Firefox window.” Instead, they see that squishy black bar that is physically attached to their Firefox window and they click it. On the other hand, buttons seem to carry a different tone. For one thing, the buttons lead in to the window menu (which has the title). People also probably think more about window buttons before clicking them, so there's a real possibility of someone thinking “okay, that title says gedit, so I am closing gedit” when in fact they are closing Firefox. With that said, I get the feeling we're all on the same page but using slightly different words :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/716177 Title: The Unity Panel's window controls and window dragging features should work for the uppermost maximized window regardless of current window in focus. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
