Bug#247252: kwin: random buttons missing from titlebar
* Zygo Blaxell at Work [Mon, 03 May 2004 23:52:51 -0400]:
> Some applications do not display a maximize button on their
> titlebars. Some examples are 'wish' and 'gnome-xbill'.
> Some applications display the maximize button but not the minimize button:
> xload, xclock.
> When the button is missing, the capability that goes with it is missing
> too. For example it is not possible to iconify an xload window.
> This is a regression from kwin 3.1.x, which didn't seem to randomly grant
> some windows their full set of titlebar buttons while denying others.
> Generally the three min/max/close options were available for most
> application windows.
This is not a bug. Each application gets to decide which WM actions
will be available for its windows. So wish & gnome-xbill authors
considered it was better for their apps not to be maximizable, and
xload and xclock were not given the possibility of being minimized.
Every WM has to respect that. In previous versions, kwin always showed
all three buttons, but you would find that clicking them would do
nothing depending on the app. Since 3.2 (I think) that behavior
changed, and now kwin only displays the buttons *really* available,
which IMO is a good thing.
Please close this bug.
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