[maemo-developers] How to place a button in the fremantle title bar?

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 12:00 +0200, ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
> 2009/7/21 Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com>:
> >
> > You have to understand that an application toolbar and window title bar
> > are completely different things. The application owns the toolbar and
> > controls it, and the WM owns the title bar and controls it. Even if you
> > would be able to add a button to the WM's title bar, you would need some
> > ugly hack to send the button press/release to the application (or have
> > handling of the button in application side somehow).
> 
> Yes, I understand that. But a developer, on seeing a screencast,
> thought it part of the normal WM chrome. Indeed, if you look at the
> screenshot[1] it looks like any other stacked window, but with a
> button next to the back arrow.
> 
> >From a *user's* point of view, this looks like a button in the window
> chrome. Hence my concerns about usability differences for the valid
> *technical* reasons you give.

We are working hard with Fremantle to get it out, we don't have time to
fix every small detail right now...  The code in question will be
public, so it can be modified later, though.

-Kimmo

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andrew
> 
> [1] http://bleb.org/software/maemo/modest-move.png
>