One Hundred Papercuts

Left close buttons on tabs

Asked by Xavier Guillot

Hello,

As Ubuntu now has "Close - Minimize - Maximize" buttons on right side of the window, as Unity panel will be on the left side of screen, I wonder if it would be possible also to get the "X" close buttons on tabs put to the left for the applications which are using tabs :

Firefox - Thunderbird - Libre Office - Empathy - Nautilus - Gedit...

Because now we are used to automatically go on left upper side to close, and this would make sense with a global uniform behavior.

Is it something you have in mind for papercuts ?

Thanks. Best regards,

Xavier

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Best Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Hi Xavier, thanks a lot for your question. Unfortunately, the paper cuts project isn't the place to bring this up as we deal with fixing small usability bugs in existing features, whereas this would constitute the creation of a new feature, which is outwith our remit. Once place that you could bring this up is the Ayatana mailing list (<email address hidden>) which is where this sort of thing would be discussed.

I'm not sure if application tabs are affected by themes in the same way that the title bars are, and if they aren't, then this would require an upstream fix in the GTK+ GUI framework, but I may be wrong.

Anyway, hope this helps.

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Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24) said : 		#2

Hi,

Thanks for your quick answer, I'll post on the Ayatana list.

I thought to papercuts in first because for me as user, it's just a
matter of visual and practical aspect (but it's certainly more work to
solve it), like this was for the proposition :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/509656
and thanks again a lot to the team for having fixed this one !

I do not know how to solve that, but you're right, it should also be
different for GTK applications (Nautilus, Gedit, Ampathy) and others
(Firefox - Libre Office).

Best regards,

Xavier

On 12/01/2011 15:03, Chris Wilson wrote:
>
> Your question #141161 on One Hundred Paper Cuts changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+question/141161
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Chris Wilson proposed the following answer:
> Hi Xavier, thanks a lot for your question. Unfortunately, the paper cuts
> project isn't the place to bring this up as we deal with fixing small
> usability bugs in existing features, whereas this would constitute the
> creation of a new feature, which is outwith our remit. Once place that
> you could bring this up is the Ayatana mailing list
> (<email address hidden>) which is where this sort of thing would be
> discussed.
>
> I'm not sure if application tabs are affected by themes in the same way
> that the title bars are, and if they aren't, then this would require an
> upstream fix in the GTK+ GUI framework, but I may be wrong.
>
> Anyway, hope this helps.
>

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Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24) said : 		#3

Thanks Chris Wilson, that solved my question.