GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 663904
Why not hide the application title bar in maximized windows state?
Last modified: 2011-11-12 16:39:44 UTC
Hi, I started to work with gnome 3 (ubuntu 11.10). Great work! In comparison to unity it looks better and works better. The only advantage from unity is the global application menu in the to panel. This saves space and fits much better on small displays. I can understand why Gnome3 did not handle this the same way. Especially for Eclipse this did not work in unity. So I don't want to start a discussion about the global menu here. But I want to discuss the application title bar in maximized windows state. What is it good for? It wastes unnecessary space. Why not hide the application title bar in maximized windows state and add the complete window title into the top panel? The window controls (close/minimize) could be added into the application title menu in the top panel. Take gedit as an example and maximize it: - in the top panel I can see that I work with gedit. - clicking on the gedit in the top panel shows a menu to close the application - below the top panel I have now the applications title bar - in the application bar I can again see that I am working with gedit and again I have the close button What did you think about this? Ralph
That's an idea which has been considered many times. Designers seem to like it (see for example the mock-ups at http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/gnome-design-update/), so it may indeed get implemented. But for now, it's been considered making it an extension. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 594879 ***
Thanks for your comment. I have now understood that I can hide the titlebar by changing the frame_geometry for maximized window when setting the attribute has_title=”false”: http://apathyonline.net/archives/420 This works for me - also when I lost in this configuration the document title.