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[Toki Tahmid <oxwivi@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's quite a neat idea about the windows titles being a drop-down button.
But what exactly is the functions for this button are you suggesting?
Personally, I think that the button should display titles of other windows
of the same program - and an option to open a new window.

On the other hand, I don't like buttons for all the programs being displayed
on the panel.

On 16 April 2011 16:42, Renze van der kamp <renzevanderkamp@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> First of all I don't have Unity installed currently and I'm not a native
> English speaker but I'd like to share an idea I've had. I'd like to discus
> combining the mockup I've quoted and the menu button as seen in the youtube
> video (and Firefox 4 on Win7). If we make the windowtitle of the window a
> button on all floating windows we achieve the goal of decluttering the
> desktop and it doesn't get into the mess of trying to put a whole menubar
> inside a tiny titlebar for small windows and it'll leave room for dragging
> the window. It doesn't require a click on the window to make it focused and
> then going back to the top panel to select an option (something I find
> myself doing all the time on osx). This means that it only requires an extra
> click on already focused windows.
>
> There is another advantage if multiple windows are maximized. I don't need
> to know which window is maximized and focused, I should recognize it from
> the content displayed in the window itself covering my whole screen.
> Therefore we could display the menubuttons of all maximized windows next to
> each other on the panel exposing the menu of the hidden maximized window and
> at the same time provide information on which windows are lurking beneath
> (probably going from left to right in order of being maximized (or opened),
> like tabs). These menu's cannot be used for window switching, but that's
> what the launcher is for anyway. I think the behavior of the top panel will
> be easier to understand as it now only merges the "titlebar with menu
> inside" exactly like it's seen on the window. I hope you'll understand my
> idea, but for a visual thinker I've included a mockup
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1286396/Ubuntu/menubuttons.png .
>
> Thanks in advance for considering it.
>
> Renze van der Kamp
>
> On 04/15/2011 05:45 PM, Christian Mackintosh wrote:
>
> (...) As far as I'm concerned the only sensible solution is this:
> http://www.webupd8.org/2011/02/unity-mockup-menu-integrated-in-window.html, which I will keep banging on about because it's so brilliant. (...)
>
> Christian Mackintosh
>
>
>
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