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I propose some modifications in area of close, minimize, maximize buttons. I think that these are obsolete and modern systems (KDE/Linux comes in mind can do better than that. Anyways, I will try to explain myself so if you have something to say about this please comment. Remember, these are just ideas. I'm not a programmer nor will I be, so I can't implement this. Ideas may be completely useless to, they just seem OK to me. Sorry for grammar in advance, not an english speaker. Lets go:


Replace 3 buttons (minimize ! maximize ! close) with two that are smart


Looks something like these:
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Menu ! Title.................................................................................................................Smart Resize ! Smart Close
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Smart resize would be the left one. It resize function would behave similiar to OS X one. It wouldn't maximize whole window but just enough to show content. So if I stretch my calculator click on that button would resize window to show just buttons and digit display. Or if i'm watching video clip, and have black ribbons on the side because proportions of video and window are not the same, click on the Smart maximize would resize the window to fit the video clip withous black borders. If I shrink browser window, click on that button would expand the surface to show website and tabs+toolbar.I hope I made myself clear on this one, I'm not sure

Smart Close. This one is little harder to explain. It's should be kinda Get-out-of-my-way button that should take in count lot of use cases in which user doesn't know or care about current state of application. He/she just wants to move this window out of the way at this particular moment. So window manager should know does the application needs to be killed or minimized for later usage. Examples would be text editor in unsaved state. If it's unsaved, minimize application; if it's saved, quit application. Or media player, if it's playing or paused, minimize; if it stoped playing, quit. There would be certain applications that would default to certain behaviour. Like app that is always Quit (Kjots) or always Minimize (Akregator, Kmail).

I think that this would make expirience of using KDE software unique and easy. This would also take care of duality of (X) button that is really annoying. If i click close on my VLC right now it would close, but if I click SAME button on Amarok, music will continue playing. This IS confusing to people and should be an easy fix.

This is it. Any thoughts?

I think that smart close has the potential of being really confusing. As in "Why did it minimize this time, when last time I clicked that button the application closed down entirely".