
Improved close button (mockup)
Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements
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The close button could be enhanced to not close the "program", only the window, by minimizing it.
A possible configuration would be click to minimize, double click to close, and pushing for an amount of time to kill.
Minimizing is the behaviour of the close button on PDA's, and in kopete and amarok (each app could decide if it should minimize to the task bar or to the icon tray). Also, this would give coherence to the behaviour of those two apps in kde.
Collateraly, you won't ever close an app by mistake (you can recall it from the taskbar), and even better,
no need to go all the way File->Exit when you really want to close kopete or amarok.
jsowieso
13 years ago
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Fri13
14 years ago
Windows users only have three buttons and when double clickin windeco, it goes fullsize.
KDE users has many options, like midle click on mini.../max... buttons and double ckick on windeco or mouse wheel on windeco....
Close buttons should be button what _close_ the window or program. I like idea that holding 1 second close button, application will be killed. But when application freeze, KDE ask should it be killed when user klicks close button and application dont answer for a while.
And with XGL/AiXGL application/window what dont respond anymore, changes itself to B/W and dark so user knows what is happening.
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prankxd
14 years ago
Close button -> minimize to tray.
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maarizwan
14 years ago
alternatively if we want to save the "button space", we could use "one expandable button" > clicking on it will show the available buttons and there we go with the options in just 2 clicks...
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emilsedgh
14 years ago
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emilsedgh
14 years ago
http://kdocker.sourceforge.net/
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tminos
14 years ago
I like the idea of invoking some kind of xkill like behavior on a prolonged click, though.
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DanaKil
14 years ago
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Fanaz
14 years ago
But idea of "killing" inactive window is good. Maybe.. long-press "Close" button and menu of "Close / Suspend / Kill" app?
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AndreSomers
14 years ago
If you make the mistake of often choosing the wrong button, why don't you change the layout of your buttons so the mistake isn't so easy to make?
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