** Description changed:
The fact that the window controls of maximised applications are
incorporated into the top panel in Unity causes confusing behaviour for
applications with modal dialogues.
Say, you are saving something in Gedit. When the modal save dialogue is
open and gedit is not maximised, you can still press the maximise
button. Gedit will then expand to fill the whole screen and move its
title bar completely to the top panel. The animation used for this
implies that the window controls will have moved to the top left corner.
This feeling is strengthened by the fact that the modal dialogue has its
own window controls on its own, non-maximied window borders.
However, when you try to unmaximise the gedit window by going to the top
left corner of the Unity top panel, you will discover that there are no
window controls there. The window controls, which the user might think
were just moved, have disappeared altogether!
This could be caused by the fact that the modal dialogue has the focus
and that the panel therefore displays the stuff that belongs to the
modal dialogue. But I think that this works confusing, since a user
should reasonably expect that the window controls of the main window
were moved to the top panel, as the animation suggests.
Normally what the animation implies is true, because you will switch
focus away from the currently active window to the window you are
maximising. When you return to the other window, you will have done an
action and that is enough to realise that the top panel changed.
However, when an application has a modal dialogue, its parent window
cannot receive focus, even when you press the maximise button on the
parent, its modal child dialogue will keep the focus. This is what
causes the confusion.
- I suggest to make the top panel always display the window controls and
- menu of the parent in the case a non-maximised modal dialogue is
- present.
+ --------------------------------------
+ Desired solution:
- ProblemType: Bug
- DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
- Package: unity 4.2.0-0ubuntu1
- ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-3.4-generic 3.0.0-rc5
- Uname: Linux 3.0-3-generic x86_64
- NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
- Architecture: amd64
- CompizPlugins:
[core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,grid,resize,compiztoolbox,move,place,gnomecompat,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,snap,wall,session,animation,expo,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
- Date: Tue Jul 5 12:18:50 2011
- ProcEnviron:
- LANGUAGE=nl:en_GB:en
- PATH=(custom, user)
- LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
- LC_MESSAGES=nl_NL.UTF-8
- SHELL=/bin/bash
- SourcePackage: unity
- UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-04 (0 days ago)
+ Make the top panel always display the window controls and menu of the
+ parent in the case a non-maximised modal dialogue is present.
** Changed in: ayatana-design
Assignee: (unassigned) => John Lea (johnlea)
** Changed in: ayatana-design
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: ayatana-design
Status: Incomplete => Fix Committed
** Tags added: udo
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Behaviour of window controls of parent window with modal dialogue
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