[haiku-development] Re: Minimize button
- From: Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:44:42 +0200
On 13.09.2011 09:35, Kit wrote:
As Rene (anevilyak) has pointed out here on the mailing list, and on the
bug tracking page, the current behavior is working as designed.
Still, please note that even in the days of the BeOS, some people also
shared your unease.
[...]
Basically, hiding/minimizing a window into the Deskbar is currently a
hidden feature. I am personally not so sure if something as basic and
expected as this should be found to be available via the user guide or
by accident.
As you know, minimizing is executed via double-click on the title bar.
One problem with this is that new users may double click to maximize a
window, since that is the default behavior on other, more common
platforms. Since there is already a button for an alternative window
size (note: not for maximizing in principle, but interpreted by a few
applications for maximizing), I see the logic in assigning the
double-click to something which is otherwise unavailable: minimizing. I
wonder, though, if there were two buttons, one for minimizing, one for
alternate size, whether double-clicking would still have been assigned
to the minimizing action. 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. They may
eventually figure out to look in Deskbar, but I know for a fact, through
experience running BeOS stations with eXposer at a film school back in
the day, that this feature can greatly confuse users.
A dedicated minimize button wouldn't fix this problem, but at least
users would better know what they did by clicking a dedicated button,
versus double-clicking and perhaps even expecting something completely
different to happen.
All in all, I can really understand the feature request.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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