the next step on the desktop

[Fredrik Höglund]

On Monday 31 January 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> ----- Ursprüngliche Mitteilung -----
> > A Segunda, 31 de Janeiro de 2011 13:00:50 Marco Martin você escreveu:
> > > provocation: remove the maximize button by default? ;) (as the netbook
> > > doesn't have minimize)
> > 
> > will talk to mgrslin this afternoon but somthing like a optimal size
> > buton   instead of max... if you clik it again it goes max.... now the
> > apps would need   to provide info to kwin about it... this comes in line
> > with the other crazy   ideas we benn cooking. worth trying IMO
> at UDS I talked with some desktop experience devs about that. What we came up with is abusing the (unused) maximum size hint and making the maximize button tri-state. First click optimized, second click maximized, third click back to normal. As Ubuntu is also interested there's the chance of getting some kind of standard (but honestly I doubt that gnome would be collaborative in any way if it involves both kde and canonical).

The maximum size hint is not unused. QWidget exposes a property for
setting it, and KWin respects it. In addition the only way to make a window
fixed-size is to set the minimum and maximum size hints to the same value.

This is specified not just by the ICCCM, but also by the EWMH.

Regards,
Fredrik