GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 354304
Change close button flashing on chat tabs to show all the time
Last modified: 2006-09-07 18:45:57 UTC
IMHO it's not a good idea to remove tab's closing button when the cursor leaves the window. - It's not consistent with others GNOME applications : Epiphany, gnome-terminal. - It's disturbing. If you don't pay attention, you have the feeling that this button randomly appear/disappear. - It's not really useful. We don't gain a lot of space, and when we have this extra space, there is good chance than the user is watching another application. - It's against the KISS principle. :-)
Created attachment 72211 [details] [review] proposed patch I agree, that's something I dislike in gossip. Happy to see I'm not the only one :-)
FWIW, I also agree with this. We tried it to save space but I don't think it's working very well: 1. The implementation is buggy (and is a bit tricky to get right since we don't always get enter/leave for example when switching desktops). 2. The space is not really saved, since when you use the window it has focus, like you say. 3. It causes a lot of annoying flickering when moving in and out of the window, especially when using Ubuntu where the close icon is very bright and visible. So, since there is no better alternative, I vote for reverting the current behavior at least in the meantime since it doesn't really work.
Committed, thanks ;)