Close open windows with middleclick on the panel

[Ubnuut]

I find it quite cool that you can flip through open windows in Dapper by just rolling the mouse wheel while it hovers on the panel above the windows list. Maybe you haven't realized it yet. I discoverded it by chance.

Now I was thinking it would be even more cool if you could CLOSE open windows by middle clicking on the filename on the panel, instead of right click and select close or move the mouse to the close button on the window. I'm so used to closing tabs with the middle mouse button, that I find it frustrating not to be able to do it on the panel.

What do you think?

I always set my nautilus behaviour to single click to activate items, but when I click on "save as" and browse for other folders in the dialogue box, I have to dubble click to open other folders. It would be nice to be able to set that to single click as well.

I think it would be nice if Edgy could have these features, but maybe I'm the only one wanting them... Is there anybody else who would want it?

[Mais]

I find it quite cool that you can flip through open windows in Dapper by just rolling the mouse wheel while it hovers on the panel above the windows list. Maybe you haven't realized it yet. I discoverded it by chance.

Now I was thinking it would be even more cool if you could CLOSE open windows by middle clicking on the filename on the panel, instead of right click and select close or move the mouse to the close button on the window. I'm so used to closing tabs with the middle mouse button, that I find it frustrating not to be able to do it on the panel.

What do you think?

I always set my nautilus behaviour to single click to activate items, but when I click on "save as" and browse for other folders in the dialogue box, I have to dubble click to open other folders. It would be nice to be able to set that to single click as well.

I think it would be nice if Edgy could have these features, but maybe I'm the only one wanting them... Is there anybody else who would want it?

I really really like the idea of middle-click closing the windows. However, it needs to be an option as middle-clicking is often used to paste things into programs. I would personally use that feature all the time. Although, I do believe it would be up to the DEs (Gnome, KDE, XFCE) to implement these and not up to our development team. Same goes for the single click browsing feature.

Can anyone clarify this? If it's something the dev team can do we should draw up a spec, I just think it's a DE project.

[henriquemaia]

I find it quite cool that you can flip through open windows in Dapper by just rolling the mouse wheel while it hovers on the panel above the windows list. Maybe you haven't realized it yet. I discoverded it by chance.

Now I was thinking it would be even more cool if you could CLOSE open windows by middle clicking on the filename on the panel, instead of right click and select close or move the mouse to the close button on the window. I'm so used to closing tabs with the middle mouse button, that I find it frustrating not to be able to do it on the panel.

What do you think?

I always set my nautilus behaviour to single click to activate items, but when I click on "save as" and browse for other folders in the dialogue box, I have to dubble click to open other folders. It would be nice to be able to set that to single click as well.

I think it would be nice if Edgy could have these features, but maybe I'm the only one wanting them... Is there anybody else who would want it?

I DO want to have single click on the nautilus browse menu (to save as). But as Mais have pointed out, maybe this is more specific to Gnome developers than Ubuntu (I'm not sure also).

As for the middle click on taskbar to close windows, this also makes sense to me. But I'm not sure of the implications on the implementation of this kind of behaviour.

[chrsjav]

I agree completely with the OP. The GNOME developers should at least consider it as an option as it makes the mouse experience more consistent.

[.t.]

I hate the scrolling panel!!!

[Luffield]

I like this idea, and I've tried to do it more than once in the past :D

BTW, in case you haven't noticed, you can also scroll through desktops with the mouse wheel.

[marcog]

A few other suggestions:

1. Changing the order of windows on the panel by moving them around. Like with FF and gedit where you can move tabs.

2. Dragging a window into another workspace.

[henriquemaia]

Shouldn't you add this to the suggestion list (on the forum and the wiki)? Today is the last day for it.

[Ubnuut]

OK, I have added it the the Edgy spec list. https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/middleclick-close-windows-on-panel
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/single-click-browse-folders-nautilus-dialogue-boxes

[MichaëlVD]

A few other suggestions:
2. Dragging a window into another workspace.
That's possible already in the workspace switcher, from one workspace to another.



I'm not a big fan of all these ideas.

Consider this:
- your mouse is on the left part of the window selector
- you move to another window (which has a place on the right part of the window selector) with the scroll button of your mouse
- if you want to close that last window, you still need to move your mouse to the selected window to double click it

What I'm trying to say is this: you won't be that much more efficient with all these new tricks. If every click and keystroke is important to you, don't use a mouse at all, use your keyboard.