Comment 707 for bug 532633

@Paul: Thanks for pointing that out and editing the description - It is already a huge amount of reading work to go through all the comments.

In the morning under the shower I thought again of my proposal for displaying the buttons just on hovering over the title bar. The only disadvantage of displaying the buttons only when hovering over the title bar is that it could be irritating that buttons might not show up exactly on the expected position. Why: Let's say they are always displayed left from the mouse cursor position, then if you go to the upper left of the window and there is not enough place left the buttons have to show up on the right side. Knowing that I wouldn't go to the very top left, but anyway - wanted to mention that. Other solution could be to show the buttons in a dropdown-style menu instead. Advantage: If you want to add more entries over time there is enough free space most of the time (not considering really mini confirmation dialog boxes). But going up and then down (in the menu) again means additional mouse miles. :-(

Thinking of all the possible options I also want to mention that there is already a title context menu where a lot of stuff is that I often use. BTW: I use the feature to move a window to a particular desktop more often than I use the minimize button. However, the longer I think of it the more I get to the conclusion that minimize, maximize and close are the essential operations that deserve buttons even although only minimize is really required, because menu button on the left is the same as clicking with the right mouse button anywhere on the title, maximize is double-click and close is clicking the middle (mousewheel) button.

BTW: I have listened to the interview with Ivanka already and today also the answer from Jono Bacon who mentions that they are wanting to use the right top of the Window to place something else in the future. Whatever it is, it could perfectly also go to the left, I would say. One another thing: Putting too many buttons on the window title bar maybe will reduce the space too much for the title. I would put spicy new things to the context menu as they can't be really essential.