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