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[Victor <vm.kalbskopf@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <kazade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
>
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