GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 591390
remove icon and menu from titlebar
Last modified: 2010-04-13 17:59:32 UTC
We should remove the menu from /apps/metacity/general/button_layout so it would be: ":minimize,maximize,close" This probably depends on having #590429
How will you gnome at a quick glance what window is in the background if it does not have an icon on the frame?
gnome? Well really the odds that a) you ensure that those 22 pixels are unobscurred at all times and b) that you can't tell from the rest of the visual clues are both true are very small I think. If there isn't enough of the window visible to identify it you either a) click on it to bring it to the foreground to see the app more clearly (and its name) b) use the alt+tab switcher to go to it c) go to the overview where everything is displayed fairly unambigously. I've been running this way for a couple of months and I haven't had any trouble with gnome 2 or with gnome shell.
No icons is also the default in Ubuntu Karmic for both gnome 2 + shell. The app icon has been replaced by a button for opening the window menu.
*** Bug 600291 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
isn't this basically just a theme issue?
Created attachment 158545 [details] [review] Remove icon and menu from titlebar To avoid visual duplication with the application menu, eliminate the window menu button. (The window menu can still be accessed by right-clicking on the title bar, or Alt-right-clicking anywhere on the window.) This is implemented using the new Mutter facility for GConf key redirection; we add separate key for 'button_layout' with a default that omits the menu button.
(In reply to comment #5) > isn't this basically just a theme issue? The button layout isn't part of the Metacity theme, it's separately specified in a GConf key. I suppose you could use an invisible menu button, but then the user would get a surprise if they tried to move a window by its extreme edge.
Comment on attachment 158545 [details] [review] Remove icon and menu from titlebar >+ <default>single</default> >+ <default>:minimize,maximize,close</default> You have 2 default values. (Also, there's a mix of spaces and tabs, but that's probably consistent with the existing data.) otherwise good
Attachment 158545 [details] pushed as 98a093a - Remove icon and menu from titlebar