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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 17:04, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> To avoid that kind of confusion, a progress window -- a window that
> embodies a task the computer is completing, and closes itself when done
> - -- should not have a close button in its title bar at all.
>

thank you. ditch the title bar, like Policykit does, is my suggestion.


> The failure to systematically distinguish progress windows, dialogs, and
> other window types is a long-standing design flaw in Gnome.
>

Yah,.. Many of these problems will automatically vanish with the advent of
CSD


> In 2008 I wrote a specification for Nautilus's progress window.
> <http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus/ProgressWindow>
>

niiiice!
you did that in '08 already?
the item's name shouldn't be in the title? why is that?