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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Frederik Nnaji wrote on 16/06/10 23:29:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 17:04, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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.

gksu does. PolicyKit, fortunately, does not.

A progress window should still be minimizable.

>> 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
>...

I don't see how CSD would improve that situation at all. Can you be more
specific?

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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