GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 671643
titlebar missing in maximized state
Last modified: 2012-03-18 18:02:13 UTC
EOG should not mimic apps like Boxes or Documents in terms of a maximized state as it relies on interaction with the menubar. Having the menubar so close to shell's top bar creates interaction issues (and the lack of titlebar solves none). Image viewer is a candidate of working in fullscreen rather than maximized.
The issue this was meant to fix was to increase the vertical screen space available to the image view. If you disable the tool-,status- and sidebar now after maximizing you will get as much screen space as possible without going fullscreen. I guess with "interaction issue" you mean accidential triggering of the activities menu. Is it really that much of an issue? I have to admit I haven't played much with the hidden toolbar myself because I'm having trouble running unstable GNOME Shell. Generally I was under the impression that the most important actions can be attached to the toolbar. Converting the menu into an app menu is also not an option. Hmm,.... I'll think about it.
Yes the close proximity of the hot corner to the menu will most definitely cause major pain with a tiny target that is a menubar.
Hmm, let's take it out again for this cycle until we can test this a bit more thouroughly for the next one. I'll request the UI freeze break. Although it makes me wonder why the menubar is moved up at all in these cases as accidentially triggering the activities menu becomes a problem for every app having a menubar then, no?
Alright, reverted it for 3.4 and will reopen the original bug (#668652) to revisit it for 3.6 and decide whether to reinclude it, leave it out or possibly make it a plugin. commit 706797b92423a7b3a138985060d2fcecf1ae61bd Author: Felix Riemann <> Date: Sun Mar 18 18:59:35 2012 +0100 Revert "Do not show the titlebar when eog is maximized." This reverts commit c93aa0b94ba6142c78ea5025a56a0f70c6fc0739. As the menubar comes pretty close to the top of the screen, there is apperently the possibility to accidentially trigger gnome-shell's activities menu. Revisit this for the next development cycle when all the dependencies are stable enough. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671643 --- This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.