Ick! So they are taking the functionality of dock/bar icon apps and reproducing it in each window title bar? Seems needlessly complicated and cluttered to me. I prefer a simple, streamlined design myself.
Window indicators for Ubuntu ("windicators")
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#12Mark Shuttleworth uses Balsamiq Mockups. That's a great endorsement for Balsamiq.
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#13im all for inovation. But his example was the worst. Removing the status bar from the browser and using more space on the title? Ive been using no title on my browser (go gtkrc) even before chrome. Because the tabs do the same work as the title (display page title) plus added funtionality. So its only natural to remove the title bar. Not add stuff there. Also everyone uses xterm titles as a status bar.
I thought the example of per application volume control/mute was pretty useful.
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#14Ick! So they are taking the functionality of dock/bar icon apps and reproducing it in each window title bar? Seems needlessly complicated and cluttered to me. I prefer a simple, streamlined design myself.
Analogously:
Ick! So they are taking a chunk off the bottom of the window for a couple icons that could just as well have lived in the title bar? Seems needlessly complicated and cluttered; just put all the icons in one place.
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#15Ick! So they are taking the functionality of dock/bar icon apps and reproducing it in each window title bar? Seems needlessly complicated and cluttered to me. I prefer a simple, streamlined design myself.
I don't understand your criticism. How is per application volume control in the title bar anything like "dock/bar icon apps"?
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#16Finally a sensible explanation for why the window title bar widgets were moved to the left in Ubuntu 10.04.
Yeah, but I don't know why they couldn't have just said "We're moving the buttons to the left to acclimate users and make way for a new feature we'll be introducing sometime in the near future, but are not ready to discuss right now." It would have been a lot nicer than their "because I said so" deal, which actually cost them at least one good developer (to my recollection; there was a story about it on here not that long ago, but it would be hard to find) who felt that Canonical became calloused to community desires.
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#17Finally a sensible explanation for why the window title bar widgets were moved to the left in Ubuntu 10.04.
Yeah, but I don't know why they couldn't have just said "We're moving the buttons to the left to acclimate users and make way for a new feature we'll be introducing sometime in the near future, but are not ready to discuss right now." It would have been a lot nicer than their "because I said so" deal, which actually cost them at least one good developer (to my recollection; there was a story about it on here not that…
they did.
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#18Interesting but looks cluttered.
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#19Wait, what?
You want to clutter up the window title bar with more garbage?
This is why Mac OS X is the only viable desktop Unix. Apple knows how to distinguish between the simple, elegant, and useful and the eye candy which distracts and interferes with attention.
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#20The Ubuntu changes make me cringe - I like how windows are now, and this sort of change makes me hesitant to upgrade.
I like using Ubuntu, but several times when I've upgraded it trashed my system, or features didn't work right on an upgraded system while they did on a fresh install.
Those are the issues I think they need to work on - making it flawless for the masses to use. A bad upgrade experience for a normal user and they'll go running back to Mac/Windows. On top of that changing things like this will make it harder for normal users to find the buttons they're used to.
I'm not anti-progress, but it seems like you should make significant changes after you have a large market share.