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Tag Archives: windowcontrols
Now that looks familiar: Buttons switch to their final ordering in Lucid
Now that looks a bit more familiar… Yes, just as Mark Shuttleworth announced in his ‘Buttons staying left, but order changing’ announcement, Ubuntu 10.04’s buttons have finally positioned themselves where they intend to stay (for this release, at least). Personally I had really gotten used to the maximize, minimize, close ordering and will likely [...]
Ubuntu window buttons staying left, but will be switching order
Just a quick heads up – window controls in Ubuntu 10.04 WILL be staying on the left hand side but the button order will revert to Close, Minimize, Maximize. Mark Shuttleworth issued the final verdict on the bug report for the “issueâ€, ending with an excellent quote: “The decision as to the window controls location [...]
‘Additional buttons’ concept for the right-hand side of windows
Reader Platinrabe sent over his concept for how best to use the free space on window borders that we’ve seen so much of recently: from gesture based controls and intelligent helpers to workflow-enhancing menu-thingy-majiggies) “I thought before searching for new functions that could be added as buttons it would be more important to add existing [...]
Esfera – gesture-based replacement for right-hand side window borders
Jack Wallen over on TechRepublic posted an interesting piece about a discussion that’s been buzzing on the Ayatana mailing-list over the last few days that, like other proposals we’ve featured the last few weeks, seeks to make use of the space left by the moving of window control buttons to the left. ‘Esfera’ is the [...]
New Ubuntu Window Button Concepts by Izo Make Glorious Sense
Following Mark Shuttleworth’s gloriously intriguing statement that Ubuntu 10.10 will experiment with "innovative" options on the right-hand side of window borders, many designers have begun mocking up their proposals in earnest. Workflow Mock up by Izo The following idea idea has been proposed by Ian Cylkowsk AKA Izo, who’s ideas on nautilus we featured in [...]
Meet Zeitbutton and Menu Button – Right-hand side replacement buttons
Mark Shuttleworth, in response to the on-going Window Button Controversy™ , stated the he "..would like to experiment with some innovative options†in the right-hand space left free by the button shuffle to the left. Davidc ‘dented’ his idea for what could sit there a few days ago, titling it ‘Zeitbutton’! It’s awesome to see [...]
Mark Shuttleworth responds to the window button issue; hints at good things to come
The repositioning of window button controls in Ubuntu 10.04 has undoubtedly been one of the most ‘controversial’ decisions taken by the OS team period. They change can seem both trivial – they are just window buttons after all – and important at the same time (e.g. “my Nan uses Ubuntu, this will confuse herâ€). The [...]
Easy GUI Window Button Switcher for Lucid (and Karmic) users
I do envision a time when the Window Button Controversyâ„¢ has been resolved and i can stop posting endless articles about it. Alas, that time is not yet. To smooth things over OMG! Ubuntu! reader Alex Eftimie has created a simple GUI script to switch your buttons from left to right and right to left [...]