Comment Re:How about Zoom? (Score 1) 797
Ah yes, I miss those days when the Mac OS didn't have to be dumbed down to appear less confusing to Windows users.
It appears Gnome is trying to rid itself of this lowest common denominator style too. One must keep in mind in UI design that familiarity sometimes feels a hell of a lot like superiority. In fact, there are often superior paradigms out there, but they can take quite a while to become familiar.
I see all the time people bringing their familiar "maximise" and "minimise" ideas to the Mac OS and it's frustrating. There are better ways. The "Zoom" button is one - it only made the window as big as necessary to show the contents, without needlessly obscuring other windows. The "Minimise" button on Mac OS was rarely used and only when one wanted to, literally, keep a miniaturised version of the window handy in the Dock. If you just wanted to hide it, hide it with Command-H. Better yet, leave it there and just switch to the window you're interested in.
I'm not familiar with Gnome's implementation, but I can well imagine a superior interface could be designed without the maximise and minimise buttons.