Bug 269793

Summary:	The "Close Window" button should have some space left of it
Product:	[Plasma] Oxygen	Reporter:	Andrei ILIE <andrei.ilie>
Component:	win deco	Assignee:	Hugo Pereira Da Costa <hugo.pereira.da.costa>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	cfeck, hugo.pereira.da.costa
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
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Description Andrei ILIE 2011-03-31 00:20:22 UTC

Version:           4.5 (using KDE 4.5.5) 
OS:                Linux

A good idea got wasted ... Pls read "Sweet Spots" section from http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.0/desktop.php

Reproducible: Always




Sweet Spots section from http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.0/desktop.php reads: "The "Close Window" button has some space left of it, so you don't hit it accidentally when maximizing a window".

That was true until KDE 4.4 (4.5 ?) so now I'm using KDE 4.5.5 with all three buttons (minimize, maximize, close) close to one another.

A good idea was forgotten. Please fix it.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2011-03-31 01:43:35 UTC

You can simply insert spacers between the buttons:

Click on "Configure Buttons..." in the Window Decorations section in System Settings, select "Use custom titlebar button positions", and drag any number of spacers between the buttons.

Comment 2 Andrei ILIE 2011-03-31 10:19:34 UTC

thx, that may work ...

The point is that the space left of "Close Window" is a sane default.

All (new) users should benefit of it. It should be set by default.

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2011-03-31 14:31:11 UTC

Oxygen maintainers have to decide if the defaults can be changed.

Comment 4 Hugo Pereira Da Costa 2011-03-31 14:45:22 UTC

we (meaning nuno, the designer, with whom I agreed) have indeed decided to remove this extras space for oxygen's default button layout, because we dimmed that the amount of accidents this use case was preventing was not worse the poor design which resulted from it. 

So it is not a feature that got forgotten but a deliberate choice.
Since there is no feature loss (just a change in the defaults), I'm closing as wontfix.

(believe me, we did discuss this decision quite some before taking it).

Hugo