On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'll stop posting on this topic. Obviously nobody reads what I write > and I'm sick of repeating myself: Nobody mistakes the simple window- > closing square for a checkbox. But you can't use a simple square just > about anywhere else in the GUI and expect someone to guess what it > does. So, you'll probably put an "X" into it like all the OSs. Having a > subtle "X" mean "Close" everywhere could introduce consistency. I get what you are saying. I myself have thought about the problem of no standard "close" button in the Haiku interface. Of course Matt Madia went so far as to use the window close box as the close button in our Firefox skin for Bezilla. I think that works decently. And of course for my browser I am wanting to try to use the window stacking instead of tabs, so in that case the close button for each "tab" would just be the one for the window decorator. But at some point there will be a need for a close button on a GUI somewhere, and without some standard to base it on each developer will just make up their own, leading to inconsistency. So I definitely get your argument there. Now with all that said, I just really like the square close button. It is just one of those pieces of BeOS that gives me a nice feeling inside. Obviously that isn't exactly logical or good interface design, but I think that still has some bearing on these sorts of decisions. Based on Meanwhile's email, he feels similarly. I imagine we aren't alone. A reasonable compromise might be to leave the current window decorator as it is, but define a close button that could be used by other applications that fits in well with the rest of Haiku. Maybe some variation of what Braden used for the window decorator in his mock-ups. -- Regards, Ryan