Window Preferences dialog misses an option

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

The "titlebar action" combo box in the gnome-window-preference dialog only includes the "maximize" and "rollup" options, and not the "minimize" option. This is an option that Mac users, new to Linux, would feel more familiar with and for that reason alone it should be added.

Please note that Metacity SUPPORTS this feature (it was added last year after a feature request at gnome.org's bugzilla). The "minimize on double click" option can be passed via the command line!! It is only the preference panel that doesn't have the option and it must be updated to support that.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 7 18:31:16 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Eugenia Loli-Queru (eloli)]

BTW, ex-Mac users still have to somehow discover the fact and execute this:
gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/action_double_click_titlebar --type string minimize

I hope someone takes the initiative and adds the feature into the Gnome window manager preference dialog.

[Eugenia Loli-Queru (eloli)]

Upstream'ed here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416541
but it would be nice to have this on ubuntu nevertheless of what gnome does. You see, many ubuntu new users come from Mac.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

This upload fixes the bug:

 control-center (1:2.18.0-0ubuntu3) feisty; urgency=low
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   * debian/patches/70_from_bugzilla_extra_titlebar_actions_listed.patch:
     - patch from bugzilla, list extra titlebar actions (Ubuntu: #90542)