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[Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 26 March 2010 13:53, Jim Rorie <jfrorie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 09:30 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>>
>> "David Siegel" <david.siegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.