adelgado
December 6th, 2008, 03:34 AM
I've been using Linux for quite a few years now, and recently I became aware of an implementation difference of windows' behavior on GNOME/KDE/Windows and OS X.
The point is that when you maximize a window in Ubuntu, the window resizes itself to take up the whole screen space. But in OS X when you click on what they call the "Zoom" button (which strangely has a + sign even though it actually shrinks the windows some times) the window doesn't fills the screen, it only maximizes itself to the largest *useful* size.
That is, let's say you are reading a blog entry on a fixed-width layout, as this[1] one. if you are on any reasonably large resolution (e.g. I'm on 1280x1024), you'll end up with two large columns of emptiness that could be displaying another window.
I find the OS X manners way more intelligent.
Is there some way I could get this kind of behavior on Ubuntu?
[1] http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.12.05/tied-for-5th-in-fsf-referrers/
The point is that when you maximize a window in Ubuntu, the window resizes itself to take up the whole screen space. But in OS X when you click on what they call the "Zoom" button (which strangely has a + sign even though it actually shrinks the windows some times) the window doesn't fills the screen, it only maximizes itself to the largest *useful* size.
That is, let's say you are reading a blog entry on a fixed-width layout, as this[1] one. if you are on any reasonably large resolution (e.g. I'm on 1280x1024), you'll end up with two large columns of emptiness that could be displaying another window.
I find the OS X manners way more intelligent.
Is there some way I could get this kind of behavior on Ubuntu?
[1] http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.12.05/tied-for-5th-in-fsf-referrers/