Comment 13 for bug 716177

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Didier Roche <email address hidden> wrote:
> So, after a talk with the design team, it seems that we would rather for
> natty focus on fixing this bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/723882 which is connected to
> Dylan's work, but only applied to dragging downward and double-clicking
> on an empty space.
>
> Dylan? are you interested to make this change for natty from your
> branch?

Ah, excellent. I was thinking it would be good to split this report
into two tasks, since the buttons are a much more aggressive change.
If I understand correctly, the branch as it is satisfies bug #723882.
I'll leave a comment there just to be sure.

Thank you!

Paul: Yeah, the buttons are a trickier thing. We have a funny
confusion between title bars and window menus because this space is
being used so frequently. I think it's important to treat title bars
as physical objects that are directly attached to their own windows
and never go away. People are just used to that. We should be thinking
of the window / application title as attached to the menu, and not to
the title bar. (The title bar is a “title” in name only).

It isn't totally logical, but I don't think anyone right now reads the
title on his Firefox window and thinks “okay, that says Firefox. If I
drag this, I'll be moving the Firefox window.” Instead, they see that
squishy black bar that is physically attached to their Firefox window
and they click it.

On the other hand, buttons seem to carry a different tone. For one
thing, the buttons lead in to the window menu (which has the title).
People also probably think more about window buttons before clicking
them, so there's a real possibility of someone thinking “okay, that
title says gedit, so I am closing gedit” when in fact they are closing
Firefox.

With that said, I get the feeling we're all on the same page but using
slightly different words :)