Hi Siegfried, On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 13:39, Siegfried Gevatter <[email protected]> wrote:
> FYI, If I remember correctly, GNOME's keybinding app lets you choose a > keyboard combination to switch any window to fullscreen (even if it > doesn't nativelly support it). > yeah, Compiz can do that to a window. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 04:09, Frederik Nnaji <[email protected]>wrote: > > Fortunately, Compiz has "window rules" which can allow for toggling of > fullscreen mode for any app. > Unfortunately, this feature is buggy, as gnome-panel will sometimes cover a > fullscreen app, instead of disappearing behind it or autohiding. > i think a fullscreen mode is different from the ordinary window mode. The worst example for how to design a fullscreen mode was what i found in the current Epiphany release. Epiphany rocks, really, i love it, even if it has some rough corners. But i have a mouse way of getting into fullscreen, and NO mouse way of leaving it. That's a problem. What is fullscreen? Fullscreen is a way of using all the screen pixels to focus mainly the content an application is trying to communicate to a user. Every application should decide by itself, what content is relevant while in this special mode of window focus. Some apps might even request FUSA/MeMenu to set itself to busy automatically, which definitely should be optional if implemented as a feature. Back to Epiphany, while in fullscreen mode, it still shows a navigation bar and doesn't autohide the tabs toolbar.. this totally misses the point of fullscreen mode. In fullscreen mode, an app should display content only, perhaps a few controls where appropriate, no redundancy at all concerning window chrome or anything decoration-wise.. or what is the meaning of fullscreen in your opinion?
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