GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 645324
position window title overlay at the top of the windows (in overview).
Last modified: 2011-07-05 17:27:37 UTC
Window titles with a gap at the bottom of windows are not usable with Native Window Placement Strategy (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615378). Placing window titles at the top of windows doesn't disturb watching the relevant content and fits better to normal window handling where the title is placed at the top of the windows as well.
Created attachment 183857 [details] [review] window title overlay is positioned at the top of the windows.
(In reply to comment #0) > Window titles with a gap at the bottom of windows are not usable with Native > Window Placement Strategy (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615378). why not?
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #0) > > Window titles with a gap at the bottom of windows are not usable with Native > > Window Placement Strategy (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615378). > > why not? Maybe "not usable" is a bit too much. When using the normal grid algorithm the size of the overlay is used in the algorithm to reserve enough space so that the windows' titles look connected to the corresponding windows. When using Native Window Placement Strategy the gaps around the windows are dependent on the size of the windows. The more windows are on the desktop the smaller the windows are represented and the smaller the gaps are. This leads to strange overlaps of window titles when using many windows. The problem could also be solved by predicting the total space the windows will need (= the scale of the windows) or even dynamically while running but for me it seems to be easier to connect the window titles to the windows more directly. It would also lead a bit to this mockup: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design#Window_picker (If this is still up to date?)
Probably obsoleted by the work in bug 650254 in any case