Left set of buttons in the title bar

[todd rme]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Alex Fiestas <afiestas at kde.org> wrote:
> By default we have 2 buttons in the left side of the titlebar, and I'm
> wondering if we really need them.
>
> "On all desktop": Our defaults set only one desktop so I guess that's what we
> want the average user to use. Do we need a button in all titlebars that does
> nothing in that context?

Currently right-click on the maximize button maximizes horizontally,
middle-click maximizes vertically.  Could we do something like that
with the button, assign one of these functions to each of the three
mouse buttons:

1. Show on all desktops
2. Show on all activites
3. Activities list.

So maybe have left click pulls up a "show on activity" menu, which
also has check boxes for "show on all activities" and "show on all
desktops" (the latter being grayed out if there is only one desktop),
right-click toggles show on all activities, and middle click toggles
show on all desktops.

I know this isn't very discoverable, but the most important thing, the
menu, would be the thing people would encounter naturally anyway.
Even ignoring the middel and right-click, this preserves existing
functionality (although it takes one more click than it did), while
making activity controls easier to access (they are currently stuck in
a sub-menu).

-Todd