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[Martín A. Casco (Gmail) <martincasco@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/12/22 Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>

> On 21/12/10 22:47, Carl Simpson wrote:
> > Isn't it still confusing that you have disabled window controls near
> > the menus for, and the name of, the active window?  That tells me that
> > I can't maximise, minimise or close the active window.  This is a
> > message that conflicts with that given by the ones in its own window
> > decorations.
>
> Yes - Martin's mockup doesn't reflect the plan or direction. The panel,
> if it show window controls, should ONLY show them for the maximised AND
> focused window. If you have a maximised app, and a normal window over it
> that has the focus, the panel should only show information for the
> focused app.
>
> Mark
>
>
Yes, that's the actual behavior and the less confusing; but less "natural"..
think if we want to close, minimized or normalized windows maximized and
unfocused (the same case on mockup), we have to click on it (focus) to
enable windows controls and then close, minimized or normalized...