Thank you for calling me in, Thomas! If a button in a UI becomes temporarily unavailable because of some situation-specific circumstances, it should be disabled and get a tooltip explaining these circumstances.
The buttons in window decorations, however, are usually not temporarily unavailable. either a certain window has a button or it doesn't. Therefore, users won't "miss" buttons which are not there, and they can safely be hidden. As for the placeholder gap: Whether that's useful or not actually depends on the user's button configuration. Users who - for whatever reason - place "exotic" buttons like the ?-button between more common ones (like close or minimize) may find it irritating that the more common buttons "jump around" between windows which have the exotic buttons and those who don't. For the rest of us, the placeholder doesn't provide much benefit. However, I don't think many users place exotic buttons between common ones, as it makes more sense to put the common buttons towards the edge of the deco and the more exotic ones more towards the center anyway. Therefore I think we'll annoy less users if we just hide buttons which are unavailable on a certain window completely. Where should we document this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1175299 Title: kwin Plastik decoration displays the help-button wrong To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kdebase-workspace/+bug/1175299/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
