I have to say, I _love_ the application button idea on the corner! The thing is, it should be confined within the titlebar limits. Think about vertically (or horizontally ) maximizing the window, or just tiling it to one side of the screen...
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Stefanos A. <stapos...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/8/29 Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@ubuntu.com> >> >> On 29 August 2011 03:06, Stefanos A. <stapos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > This is Firefox's problem, not ours. The same information is available >> > on >> > the address bar and the tab text - i.e. Firefox *triplicates* this >> > information. I don't think Unity should focus on the design issues of >> > 3rd-party apps (because if it did, things like the global-menu wouldn't >> > even >> > be an option). >> >> No, the full webpage title is only available if you mouse over the >> tab. There is not enough space on the tab to show full webpage titles >> on many websites. > > (a) Why do you need the complete webpage title to be always visible? > (b) Mozilla has already removed website titles from their windows version. > The complete title is available only on mouse-over. > (c) Mozilla are working to improve the situation by displaying only the > important parts of the title in the tab. > >> >> Ubuntu absolutely should care about apps like Firefox, Epiphany, >> Chromium, LibreOffice, eog, totem, and many others which use the >> window title to present important information. Sorry, but you can't >> just suddenly declare window titles obsolete as a lot of apps use >> them. >> > > I certainly did not declare anything obsolete. Google did that first, with > Chrome which doesn't doesn't display webpage titles *at all*. Opera and > Mozilla followed next. Libreoffice and eog display the filename, which is > usually small enough to fit in a reduced title bar (as per the OP's > screenshots). Totem does the same, but also provides the same information in > the playback list making the title unnecessary. > I do believe you need to find better examples than those. It appears to me > that applications are slowly moving away from display important information > on the titlebar. > I wonder what the HIG has to say on this topic. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
