> Another similar idea I mocked up last year: > http://tango-project.org/Window_Experiments
Imagine a webbrowser instead of a simple texteditor inside your mockup. There will be a toolbar, bookmarks bar, tab bar, possibly a search bar and a status bar. because of this i reduced height of the top. I also removed the bottom because i dont think a resize area is needed. http://poweroftwo.de/Sgarrity-0.1-window-experiments-diagram_sventek.jpg I agree with your points 1,2,3 - though it might be very difficult to include in metacity its good from the point of usability. Point 5), here i have a complete different opinion. I would force people to use alt+mousebutton3 and alt+mousebutton2 to move and resize. Since nowadays a mouse has more than 3 buttons one could make this even possible by only using the mouse buttons. Therefore a resize area is not a vital part of a window. Little additional learning here for the user, but big improvement in users window-handling and speed. ... just read Phils related £0.02 The icon in the mockup above would have the drag drop functionality. Are tabs a gnomelib/gtklib thing we can change - or is it homebrew by the applications? Cause diving into applications code instead of libs they use is hard to do. regards, Sven _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
