Comment 9 for bug 716177

Paul,

Perhaps I've misunderstood the proposal but if my understanding is indeed correct then I still think it would prove confusing. Let's say you had a maximised firefox window in the background and an focused, unmaximised nautilus window in the foreground. Currently the panel would display the nautilus window title and menu whilst the nautilus window itself has its own title bar with window controls. Now there are problems with this which do need fixing, as the initial bug report outlined, but in terms of interaction with the focused window I think it's pretty clear.

Under this proposal, however, the panel would now contain the firefox window controls right next to the words "File Manager", and on mouseover the firefox window controls would be next to a fairly generic set of menus (File, Edit, View etc.) which could belong to either program. I think this would be highly confusing, users would end up closing firefox when they meant to close nautilus or possibly think that the nautilus menus relate to firefox (though I think the former is the biggest issue).

I think my proposal, as it were, would be the neatest way around this. That way the panel would continue to serve as firefox's title bar with window controls, window title and menus and all the titlebar clicking and dragging functions, and all of nautilus' functions would be provided within its own title bar.