GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 592759
Add window preferences
Last modified: 2011-06-23 02:17:52 UTC
We should remove the window preferences capplet. These are all user experience cop outs. We should leave this to a tweak UI type tool - if someone even cares to write such a thing.
Created attachment 141460 [details] [review] patch
Please no! If this is the one which gets rid of window shading, and if window shading is sliding the window up into the titlebar, and if the consequence is that I can't shade my windows - then please don't do this. I don't minimise windows; I shade them. I have been doing this for years. I am very unhappy about this proposal. The only reason I even know about the proposal is because Shaun McCann explained the patches on various mailing lists. Window shading is not geeky. It may not be how people used to Windows do things, but it's long-established in the X11 world. It was available in Gnome's window managers right from the start. Coming to Gnome from Unix rather than Windows does not make someone geeky. I'm appalled that in the email exchanges on the mailing lists, "it's geeky" was seriously advanced as an argument for getting rid of it.
I second this. I don't think window shading is "geeky", it's just another way of working with windows. The same goes to focus-follows-mouse feature - it has nothing to do with tweaking; as far as I see around me, many (non-tech) people are accustomed to it. Please don't.
Also using it for focus follows mouse with autoraise (and i think it's also that dialog that allows me to specify text next to icons in the toolbar and not text under icon - but i think that option is being changed for the next version of gtk/gnome). i guess those options could be a bit more hidden maybe (some tab in another window?), but forcing quite some users to go to gconf or to download an external application is probably pushing it too far IMHO. someone in the mailing-list suggested to hide the launcher by default. it could be a workable compromise i guess... http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2009-August/msg00112.html
The capplet was removed in the move to GNOME 3.x. The functionality should be re-added to the gnome plumbing tool once it shows up.
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. I added focus-follow-mouse to gnome-tweak-tool. With customizable titlebar actions this means you can do whatever you want now. Please re-file if you can think of any other limitations