Hi guys,
Thanks so much for a fabulous distrib! I installed it a few days ago, and switched it to the Mutiny layout. It works great, but I thought of one little way to improve it.
Currently, there are basically two options for what to do with window buttons in Mutiny when the window is maximised:
- Leave the window bar there so you can have the window buttons... but that means you've got two "bars" taking up space on the screen (the panel and the window bar), rather than one - and all you get from that second "bar" (the window bar) are the three buttons. That's a lot of unused space on a small screen.
- That's okay, because you've put the option to "Undecorate maximised windows" in MATE Tweak, which gets rid of that second "bar"... but that also takes away the window buttons. Now, that COULD be okay, because minimising is as easy as a click on the Dock... except it also makes closing a little more cumbersome, and restoring a maximised screen virtually impossible.
To solve this problem on my machine, I had a bit of a hunt around, and in the end I did this:
I put "Close,Minimise,Maximise/Restore" buttons in the top left corner. To do that was a little tricky:
- I found the app xdotool, which allows you to turn keyboard shortcuts into terminal commands.
- I added three Application Launchers to the panel, with each xdotool command for Close, Minimise, Restore.
- I went looking for the images of the three buttons, but couldn't find them, so I just copied them off the screen and made little images for each one myself.
That's a lot of steps. I could do all that, but I suspect a new user (which is one of the groups this wonderful distrib is designed for! 
) would struggle with all that.
I'm proposing that an applet be made available via an update, effectively a "Windows Button Applet", similar to this earlier one: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Window+Applets?content=103732 , And that this Windows Button Applet be integrated into the Mutiny automatic layout.
Just a suggestion, effectively a little icing on what is an amazingly awesome cake in Ubuntu Mate 16.04 .
