[ale] Stupid gui fail

Wolf Halton wolf.halton at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 20:51:13 EDT 2011


<alt><f4> will still shut an open window, but Ubuntu 11.04 has a (x) close
button on that dialogue.

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Richard Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org>wrote:

> **
> Did you try Esc?
>
> I don't know if Unity has this same issue as my "solution" has been to use
> "classic" Ubuntu as they call it (Gnome2) for 11.04 w/Ubuntu Tweak and I'm
> good.  I just moved my laptop off of F12 to 11.04 and so far am very happy.
> I now have 10.10 on the desktop and am getting ready to switch to 11.04 on
> it as well...but won't be moving to Unity.  Gnome2 is good enough for me and
> something I'm very happy with -- glad Canonical didn't do away with it
> altogether.
>
> RinL
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From*: Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us<Michael%20Trausch%20%3cmike at trausch.us%3e>
> >
> *Reply-to*: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> *To*: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org<Atlanta%20Linux%20Enthusiasts%20%3cale at ale.org%3e>
> >
> *Subject*: Re: [ale] Stupid gui fail
> *Date*: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:52:48 -0400
>
>
>
>
> This is a FF problem, believe it or not. GTK3 doesn't have modal dialogs in
> the same style anymore. When Mozilla starts to give a hoot about GTK3, there
> will be a close button in the dialog.
>
> On Sep 10, 2011 9:57 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Firefox 6 on Fedora 15 on an aspire one netbook.
> > Clicked help->about to see what version I had. About window pops over
> main
> > and has no close button or window top bar "X" to close.
> > WTF!?!?
> > I can right click and select close.
> > The loss of common use across windowed applications is a design FAIL in
> my
> > mind.
> > Ubuntu have same issue with Unity?
>
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