Outer-most window buttons don't sit in the corners when the window is maximised

[fubarbundy]

Binary package hint: light-themes

For the many many users who have no top panel, with the previous official Ubuntu window decorations and many others you could throw the mouse to the corner and click to quickly close the window (similarly for other window buttons placed in the corners).

With the new decorations, you have to precisely target a tiny icon, which takes a lot more time and attention every time. Try it yourself.

In the default config, the main menu, desktop button, log out button and trash icon are all right in the corners. Please allow for the many of us who get rid of the top panel by pushing the buttons into the corners when a window is maximised, at least as an option!

To be clear, this is nothing to do with the default button order - I couldn't care less as this is already customisable in gconf-editor. I am filing a separate bug because comments about the Fitt's-ness of the maximised button position have got lost in a sea of comments on the bug on that issue.

[Tim Fisken (tim2)]

I think this changed as a result of bug #558327 (in which the fitts-lawy-ness of the corner button was seen to be a bug).

[riu (stanray)]

No, this is issue is still present in Lucid.

The same for the right button (the place where the window menu button is placed). Outermost pixels don't belong neither to the window menu button nor to the close window button. BTW, clicking twice on that button in other themes is supposed to close the window, but in the default lucid theme it isn't. It now opens and closes the window menu.

[Chris Norman (vredley-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm feeling a bit better about this bug now I know it's theme-specific; I'm using a different metacity theme as a workaround. It would still be nice to see a proper fix, though.

[David Stansby (dstansby-deactivatedaccount)]

In the light of bug 558327 I think this would be best marked as opinion.