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Issue for GTK to make their window decorarions clickable at the corner (gitlab.gnome.org)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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On Windows, KDE Plasma, and likely many other Desktops, if a window is ~~fullscreen~~ maximized and you push the mouse to the top edge and click, it will close.

Chrome-ium actually fixed that in their builtin buttons to work the same.

Not on GNOME because there is a panel at the top, lol.

But also not when using GTK apps on these desktops, where it should work. Instead you need a lot of precision, for no reason.

An easy fix would be to expand the actual clickbox further, not only around the (oversized) close button circle, but to the edge of the ~~screen~~ window.

This would make Thunderbird, Firefox, etc. closable likel any other normal app. ;D

If you support this, leave a like on the issue. And lets hope this doesnt get closed because of whatever...

Edit

This is about maximized, not fullscreen windows. But also about those.

And the request is to expand the clickbox to the corner of the window, not of the screen.

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[–] clubb@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (9 children)

And how would you access the controls above the app? I understand you're most likely on kde, I used to shre the sentiment, but extending the close button to the panel would only break things

[–] ugo@feddit.it 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Reread the OP. They say:

not on GNOME, because you have a panel at the top

And

when usign GTK apps on those [non-GNOME] desktops

So you would not “access the controls above the app”, because having controls above the app is not covered by this scenario.

The scenario is:

  1. You don’t have a top panel
  2. You have a maximized GTK app

Which makes the close button be in the corner of the screen, but without actually extending to it.

On topic: never knew this was a problem, guess I got spoiled by the Qt environment

[–] NekkoDroid@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

It's been a thing I personally have been wondering why this is how it is for a while. Personally I like most of the GNOME stuff, but this decision has always stood out as odd.

But then again I almost always use ctrl+w or alt-f4 to close apps, so I am mostly unaffected.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I thought full screen windows were supposed to be above everything else? Including panels?

[–] ugo@feddit.it 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They are yeah, but in that scenario you would also not have a window decoration with a close button, so I assumed the OP meant maximized :P

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

Sorry, "maximized". I may need to edit some things.

[–] clubb@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Oops

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