Please fix basic window management [LWN.net]

Please fix basic window management

Posted Aug 12, 2009 16:56 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (guest, #15263)
In reply to: Please fix basic window management by spitzak
Parent article: Mutter: a window manager for GNOME 3

Don't worry, your fallacy is the same as everyone who has a pet feature; "You absolutely MUST bloat the settings UI with this! See, almost 1% of the users need it!".

Who cares if the implementation is simple? It's quite ok with me implement and stuff archaic (and unneeded by 99% of the target audience) features in an obscure text file or GConf setting, but not to clutter settings windows with it.

All I want is for the application to have a CHOICE!!!

And I want the window to iconify when I look at it evilly, but that doesn't mean that settings windows should be cluttered by my wishes.

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Please fix basic window management

Posted Aug 12, 2009 17:50 UTC (Wed) by spitzak (guest, #4593) [Link]

I'm terribly sorry that the source code was too complicated for you to understand. It obviously went way over your head for you to make that response.

Please fix basic window management

Posted Aug 12, 2009 18:42 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link]

Oh, I'm terribly sorry, I DID misunderstand, you are not talking about the user at all.

I'm still not sure that I agree, though. As far as I see it, it should be the window manager that dictactes how the application windows behaves on user interactions, not the application.

- But a window class/mode that behaves like that in relation to other windows from the _SAME_ application could be useful.

This opinion is of course completely destroyed by my love of Desktop apps like gDesklets (horribly implemented as they are), which never raise. But hey, I never claimed to be consistent.

Please fix basic window management

Posted Aug 12, 2009 17:52 UTC (Wed) by spitzak (guest, #4593) [Link]

I should further qualify that.

Please point out where in my post I said that I wanted to "bloat the UI with another choice".

In fact I want to REMOVE the need for that UI configuration option! I'm sorry I'm acting like an ass probably here, but I am very very annoyed that you would accuse me of the exact opposite of what I want.