The "close" button should be as far away from maximize and minimize as possible. If you wanted to minimize a window and you accidentally hit close you'd be pissed. I had 100 tabs open in Firefox in Ubuntu and hit close. Now I have to reload all my tabs. Sure it saved my session but all the videos and shit have to rebuffer. Fucking annoying. Classic Mac, CDE, and Win 3.x were much better designs. Maximize and minimize on the right, close/icon menu on the left. "Modern" DEs copied the totally retarded Win 9x design. It was a good idea when xp made the "X" a big red button, but it would be even better to put it on the opposite side of the window.
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CDE and Motif are much maligned for being ``ugly'' but I think they're beautiful.
The ideal desktop for me would be a mix of CDE (window decorations, windows minimize to desktop) and NeXTStep (windows minimize to a neat row on the desktop, so you can set maximize constraints) sans non-menu launcher.
Fuck today's retarded ``minimalism'' trend. It's become a nightmare to use a mouse.
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Anonymous2014-03-14 15:06
>>12
Minimizing windows to the desktop is still the natural form for X. Taskbars are alien to the Unix world. Sometimes when I minimize a WINE program, the icon appears on the desktop, but not on the same layer as the rest of the desktop icons. As much as they try to hide it, those GNOME developers can't escape their past.
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Anonymous2014-03-14 15:42
What's a "close button"? What're "minimizing" and "maximizing"? Xmonad and other tiling managers makes all of this shit so superfluous.
I only leave a tab open when it's work related and I'll need it the next day. It's typically three at the most. Right now it's two, including this one, which I'll closed after hitting reply.
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Anonymous2014-03-15 3:59
>>15
Well, if you say so.
Odds are that you're just amorphous jelly with no willpower to try something different to what Microshit is spoonfeeding you, though.
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Anonymous2014-03-15 4:36
>>18
I use X11 with Sawfish with a CDE window decoration theme as my desktop environment.
Tiling window managers are retarded.
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Anonymous2014-03-15 20:36
>>19
My biggest complaint with tiling managers is that they don't even try to respect many of the traditional X hints for window placement and focus. They're great if you mostly use terminal emulators that don't use these hints, but if you regularly use anything that behaves badly when resized it can be a pain. I use a manager that supports manual resizing and floating modes so I can work around bad applications, but the tiling algorithm itself should be smart enough to figure this stuff out.