[haiku-development] Re: Minimize button
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:05:19 +0200
Le 13/09/2011 15:34, Stephan Aßmus a écrit :
> On 13.09.2011 11:57, Axel Dörfler wrote:
>> Stephan wrote:
>>> The real problem is that the minimizing action itself may be
>>> completely confusing to new users.
>>> Their window just disappeared and they have no clue how to get it back.
>> [...]
>>> A dedicated minimize button wouldn't fix this problem, [....]
>>
>> Exactly, it wouldn't really help at all with the confusion. That's
>> also not what the feature request is about, btw.
>> The confusion could easily be removed if we add an animation that
>> moves this window into the deskbar, though. And this is what I would
>> recommend to implement rather than another button to clobber the
>> interface for no real gain.
>
> You are ignoring my (or the original poster's) argument that this
> feature is a hidden feature to begin with. Therefor the addition of the
> button would not be "for no real gain". It would provide the very real
> gain that it becomes obvious how to minimize windows without consulting
> any guide.
Maybe a custom mouse cursor would help ?
(but then how do we visually indicate it requires a double-click ?)
As for a minimize button, it would change the visual balance on the
title tab and make it a little less nice to look at IMO.
We could make it configurable, a bit like the Ctrl/Alt swap option,
either a zoom button and double-click to minimize,
or a minimize button and double-click to zoom, which is more in line
with other OSes, but less with BeOS habits.
Though it would likely add to the confusion to people using someone
else's machine then.
François.
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