The problem with (re)moving the traditional window control buttons is that you leave a large percentage of the less experienced users in comparative darkness. No controls at all is not intuitive.
On 26 March 2010 16:09, Luke Benstead <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 March 2010 13:53, Jim Rorie <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 09:30 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> > >> "David Siegel" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> >I think maximize, minimize, and close are taken for granted -- they're > >> >unquestioned assumptions carried over from a dusty desktop computing > past. > >> >Frankly, I'm not convinced that any of these buttons are worth the > price > >> >paid by users in time spent thinking about how to arrange their > windows. > > I think something worth thinking about is the link between the > minimize/maximize buttons and the window switcher. The window switcher > applet actually duplicates the window button functionality (e.g. > clicking the window in the switcher will minimize or restore the > window depending on its current state). If we are rethinking the > buttons I think it's redesigning them with the taskbar in mind. > > Luke. > > P.S. I find the default Gnome taskbar quite cumbersome, DockbarX is a > little better (e.g. one icon per application, all app windows are > listed on hover) but I still think there are massive improvements to > be made here - and I'm still not convinced that Gnome Shell's overview > is the right approach. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana<https://launchpad.net/%7Eayatana> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana<https://launchpad.net/%7Eayatana> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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