Comments on: Squib of the day: read your email

By: Taras

Taras — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:08:09 +0000

Why not to make it possible to add some buttons for window related tasks and / or information? Just like gadgets or panel applets. For example, someone may want to know how much of system resources this program consumes – a tiny info about the program’s proc and mem load can be displayed in the title bar. It would be nice if different applications could have different sets of such applets: a text processor could have a direct link to the folder with the texts which are being edited, or any other program could have a file manager button, or a calculator, or a quick note button, which could be linked to this application or placed on desktop… Just have a look at what is there on your panels and think if it could be app-related and placed on the title bar…
In general, the idea is to implement some of the panel’s functionality, probably application-specific. It will take some load off the panels and make this functionality more task/app-oriented.
By the way it seems to be quite opposite to Mac approach, where the upper panel acts as the title bar…

By: sam

sam — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:06:24 +0000

Don’t mean to be a negative nancy, but is Metacity really worth all this nitpicking? I can think of more important parts of GNOME that are lacking in bigger ways. Seems like the window manager is the only element really getting some innovation.

By: Taggerung

Taggerung — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:50:31 +0000

Wait, are you really going to implement this? Or is this an April Fools Day joke?
It might actually be useful…

By: Drop Everything « SmSpillaz’ Blog

Drop Everything « SmSpillaz’ Blog — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:50:33 +0000

[...] Allowing you to send IMAP and POP email from the titlebar – take that metacity [...]

By: Jason D. Clinton

Jason D. Clinton — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:04:03 +0000

Made. Of. Awesome.

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:08:18 +0000

aaah, gotta love this time of the year! Tis is when we get some real work done with awesome, well-thought out features. However, I think this menu would be even better if it had tabs in it.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:33:11 +0000

Heh… why not go further, and hook it in to the calendar too? For those important dates that people need to remember… :)