Window titlebar buttons are unusably small for tablets/touchscreens and don't scale with the fonts/titlebar

[Daniel van Vugt]

Titlebar buttons are unusably small on Nexus 7 and don't scale with the fonts/titlebar when you set:
    System Settings > Universal Access > Text size = Larger
(and log out/in again to force the titlebar size change)

Ideally the titlebar buttons should scale with the titlebar itself, or just be fixed to a bigger more usable size like Gnome Shell's Adwaita.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sean Feole (sfeole)]

Still an issue for Raring, Upstream bugs have been filed, leaving the Nexus7 project unassigned.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

I find this to be a general problem in Ubuntu, ie the close/minimize/maximize buttons are quite hard to hit accurately with a mouse on a hires screen, but they certainly are near-to-completely-unusable on the nexus 7's touch screen.

Perhaps making the buttons wider and/or separating them more would go some way towards alleviating this problem?

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

I used gnome-tweak-tool to make the windows buttons use Adwaita theme icons, and they are large enough to be usable.

Unfortunately they don't work with the global menu bar - it always displays the Ambiance window icons - and the bottom right keyboard icon (ie the one used to display the keyboard if you don't want it auto-displaying) halves in width.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Won't Fix. That old Nexus 7 isn't supported by any current software.