yeah, Compiz can do that to a window.
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 04:09, Frederik Nnaji
<frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Fortunately, Compiz has "window rules"
which can allow for toggling of fullscreen mode for any app.
Unfortunately, this feature is buggy, as gnome-panel will sometimes
cover a fullscreen app, instead of disappearing behind it or
autohiding.
i think a fullscreen mode is different from the ordinary window mode.
The worst example for how to design a fullscreen mode was what i found in the current Epiphany release. Epiphany rocks, really, i love it, even if it has some rough corners. But i have a mouse way of getting into fullscreen, and NO mouse way of leaving it. That's a problem.
What is fullscreen?
Fullscreen is a way of using all the screen pixels to focus mainly the content an application is trying to communicate to a user.
Every application should decide by itself, what content is relevant while in this special mode of window focus. Some apps might even request FUSA/MeMenu to set itself to busy automatically, which definitely should be optional if implemented as a feature.
Back to Epiphany, while in fullscreen mode, it still shows a navigation bar and doesn't autohide the tabs toolbar.. this totally misses the point of fullscreen mode.
In fullscreen mode, an app should display content only, perhaps a few controls where appropriate, no redundancy at all concerning window chrome or anything decoration-wise..
or what is the meaning of fullscreen in your opinion?