But the point I have against the close-in-the-corner argument, as I have said before, is that not every window is used maximized and some windows cannot be maximized at all (System Settings, Calculator) so there is never a common close spot.
Because the window buttons for maximized windows are hidden, then there could be a case to have a set spot to aim for but the answer to that is to keep the window buttons visible all the time. I believe that is the direction the last discussion was heading and a developer (Trevino) demonstrated a patch to keep the window buttons showing always but nobody responded to it after that. On 19 May 2012 19:16, Alex Smith <ais...@bham.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 13:06 -0500, Aditya Vaidya wrote: >> If one uses autohide, this problem doesn't really exist because all of >> the space below that corner is also being used. However, if one uses >> the always-visible launcher, then the problem does exist. I suggest >> that, if the user is using an always-visible launcher, the launcher >> goes all the way to the top of the screen, cutting down those ~48px of >> space from the panel but also removing that ugly corner. Yes, the >> panel will be a little shorter, but it is, in my opinion, a good >> sacrifice to remove that visual "glitch". Not sure if this has been >> suggested before, but I'll suggest it again if it has. > > One big argument here is what we use the important top-left corner of > the screen for. It's one of the easiest places on the screen to move the > mouse quickly; and at the moment, the "close current window" button is > there. If we lengthened the panel up to the top of the screen, the Dash > button would be there instead, which at least I use less commonly than > opening the window. > > (We don't make perfect use of the other screen corners either, by the > way; bottom-left is for the trash, which is not the sort of thing that's > accessed often enough to need a corner, and bottom-right isn't used for > anything. I guess having an unbound corner is useful as Compiz allows > you to bind things to screen corners, which would require a corner > that's not already being used for other things.) > > -- > ais523 > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
