Comment 11 for bug 754214

Comments on the "Automaximize" fiasco:

I hope that the developers read this list. I would like to point out several things about the whole concept of AutoMaximized windows.

1) We are dealing with what is supposed to be a Windowing environment. If all windows are maximized, then the primary advantage of a Windowed environment is lost - that is, you can never see more than one window at a time. You may as well return to the old DOS paradigm of "One Program at a Time".

2) Opening 5 or 6 windows and then having to "unmaximize" every one - and worse, having to do this every damn time you open them, is worse than a pain. If someone wants to always have all Windows maximized, provide that as an option - Don't make it the default for the rest of us poor bas####s!

3) You may not believe it, but many computer users really do know what they want, and deciding for them that all windows should be maximized by default is both irritating and arrogant.

4) MS Windoze appears to be doing the same thing lately, and it is equally as irritating. Is there some copying going on here? At least I am not tempted to abandon Ubuntu for that other irritating and paternalistic OS because of this feature.

5) Don't make lame excuses to justify a bad idea, such as "This is a feature for Netbooks". As a general purpose computing environment, which Ubuntu purports to be, targeting defaults for an almost useless general purpose computing platform (aka Netbook) is really dumb.

6) Don't risk alienating the vast majority of Ubuntu users with a marginal "feature".

7) Something with the potential to irritate, such as automaximize, should be easy to disable. Turning it off should be obvious and intuitive. Digging through literally thousands of possible choices to find just the right "key" to set/unset is not acceptable. Add the setting to the window titlebar dropdown menu. It is literally the first place many people (maybe most) would look.