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Bug 695399 - Show close buttons in the top panel for maximized windows that in the current design have no close buttons at all
Show close buttons in the top panel for maximized windows that in the current...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-03-07 20:57 UTC by Otto Kekäläinen
Modified: 2014-02-02 10:18 UTC
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Description Otto Kekäläinen 2013-03-07 20:57:38 UTC 
I've noticed that this annoys a lot of people: when you have an maximized window in Gnome 3.6, e.g. Nautilus or Epiphany there is no close button visible anywhere.

Users are forced to either click on the app menu and choose close or open the overview, hover and click the close icon.

Closing windows is a very common interaction and should be dead simple.

In the old Ubuntu Netbook Edition maximized windows had a close button in the top panel. Something like this would allow easy closing and still enable the space saving of not having a top bar on the maximized window itself.

Netbook Edition screenshot showing close button in top panel and no window top bar: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Ubuntu_Netbook_Remix-is_(Nautilus).png

I suggest we could put a close icon after the menu directly, like "Files (X)" or "Web (X)".
Comment 1 drago01 2014-02-02 10:18:31 UTC 
This is more or less fixed now by the introduction of header bars. Those apps now have a close button when maximized.