The title bar might be more succinct and highly active

The title bar might be more succinct and highly active.

Just like photoshop cs 5, just move the minimize, maxmize, close buttom down, it's might be a good idea, I think.

DO is really a very helpfull and great file manager, Thanks!


(Aside: "Guest" is a confusing username. Not a great choice.)

The fashion for certain popular apps "reclaiming" the space "wasted" by the titlebar seems to come from UI designers who have forgotten that people need to move their windows around.

I hate the way Photoshop does this. There's enough in the titlebar that I often have the window narrow enough that I have to hunt around for a place to actually move the thing. All to reclaim a few pixels.

If you want a free copy you'll have to try a bit harder than that :slight_smile:

Opera has done something like this... and it's a bit maddening because the space that used to be "wasted" by the title bar is now occupied by it's Tab Bar. I am very used to dbl-clicking on the tab bar to open up a new empty tab... but this sometimes resizes the window instead since there's a small area that functions this way just like the title bar normally works.

All in all, kind of funny that recent apps are either doing away with and "reclaiming" the title bar space... OR... the other way around, using the god-awful and very large ribbon-style menu bars at the top.

I blame Chrome. :slight_smile:

Everyone seems to be seeing Chrome's success and copying it, not thinking that if I wanted a UI like Chrome then I'd just use Chrome in the first place. Half the reason that I still use Firefox is that I don't like Chrome's UI. Thankfully I can still install 500 extensions into Firefox to make it look like a proper Windows app again. :slight_smile:

[quote="leo"]I blame Chrome. :slight_smile:

Everyone seems to be seeing Chrome's success and copying it, not thinking that if I wanted a UI like Chrome then I'd just use Chrome in the first place. Half the reason that I still use Firefox is that I don't like Chrome's UI. Thankfully I can still install 500 extensions into Firefox to make it look like a proper Windows app again. :slight_smile:[/quote]Spot on!

you can use use autohotkey to hide the title bar
e.g
use code like
WinSet, Style, -0xc00000, ahk_class dopus.lister
WinMove,ahk_class dopus.lister,,0,0,A_ScreenWidth,A_ScreenHeight-39 ;39 is the height of my taskbar
you can create a .ahk script with the above code, and make a button in dopus to execute it, if you have autohotkey installed

Just don't be surprised if programs start doing crazy things after you mess with their window styles etc. directly...

[quote="leo"]
The fashion for certain popular apps "reclaiming" the space "wasted" by the titlebar seems to come from UI designers who have forgotten that people need to move their windows around.

I hate the way Photoshop does this. There's enough in the titlebar that I often have the window narrow enough that I have to hunt around for a place to actually move the thing. All to reclaim a few pixels.[/quote]

Isn't this really an MS shortcoming, in that there is no standardized simple mechanism to move windows sans-title bar?

I mean, Alt-Space, M, Arrow and then mouse movement is really pathetic!

I agree, more or less, but we have to design things for the OS that they run on, not the theoretical OS that we wish they ran on. :slight_smile:

Until someone comes out with a new standard for moving windows around, I'll always find it frustrating when apps have UIs that make me have to think or hunt for pixels to move/size them via the only standard way we have on the platform.

Alt-Space, M, Arrow, Mouse is crazy, I agree. I often wonder if the way it works is a long-standing bug. :slight_smile: (i.e. Why do you need to push the arrow key before you can use the mouse. I've never understood that.)

At least Windows 7 gave us the Win-Left/Right shortcuts which are great for quickly getting an off-screen window back on-screen. (No use if you want precision, but I think recovering off-screen windows was what Alt-Space, M... was usually used for.)