Two Creative Button Concepts For Ubuntu By Izo Design

He rearranges the buttons for no other reason than he can and now he wants someone to come up with an idea for what to put there?

anyone else having a wtf moment with this one?

here's an idea, the fracking buttons that were supposed to be the in the first place nimrod.

At least the Izo buttons could be useful. I still don't get why the buttons had to move in the first place.

Even so the IZo buttons would work just as well on the left, or even as additional buttons on the right, or incorporated into the Window menu. Moving the current buttons isn't necessary

Also, this "workflow" menu adds unnecessary clutter. As has been said... this feature could just as easily be incorporated in other places, without taking up space.

Both of those items make much more sense in a right-click context menu. Why would you want to highlight a file then have to travel all the way up to the top right (or even left) of the window to do either of those actions? Simply right-click the file and choose it right there.

This is a solution looking for a problem just to justify trying to make Ubuntu look like a OS/X.

cabreh, you are misunderstanding the feature. The idea is that once you already have a file open in one application, you can open the file in another application.

For example, artists like to switch between GIMP and MyPaint when painting. With this, they can flip between the two easily.

If it were me, I would incorporate it in a window-grouping feature, like some window managers have, but have a special "Group and share file" mode.

None of this will work though unless the apps in question support the feature. And it'd be more productive to first agree on a standard for doing this, and then only implement it.

It's a nice mock-up, but I couldn't find anything in the article that points to Canonical (or should I say Shuttleworth) considering this functionality.

Mark S. has already revealed what he wants to put up in the right corner. "Windicators" or Windows Indicators, client side decorations which duplicate the panel notification area (systray for windows users) for every open application window.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/333

While I was already royally P.O.-ed by the completely unexplained move of the control buttons to the left and the subsequent "Shut up, Ubuntu is our plaything and we do what we want! How dare you question our "designers"?!? Now fall in line, you end user!", the Windicator thing was lame enough to make me move to Linux Mint.

I do hope that Mint doesn't opt for Mark S. braindead Gnome branding effort when Ubuntu 10.10 hits the net... (I haven't played with SuSE (nay, OpenSUSE) for years...)

@jacob

My bad. However, under those conditions (open already in gimp, say) does it open the modified or original copy of the file in the other program?

Quoting:anyone else having a wtf moment with this one?

Az: I'm afraid you're a bit behind. Most of us had that moment a few months ago when it was announced the buttons were moved to make room for something 'unknown'. Now they have an idea for the 'unknown', so a reason to move them in retroperspective or something.