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gnunn1 / tilix

A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3
https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web
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Tilix does not show HeaderBar in fullscreen mode #1539

Open BrainBlasted opened 6 years ago

BrainBlasted commented 6 years ago

This is a bit of a usability issue - when the user fullscreens Tilix via F11 they completely lose access to the controls in the HeaderBar. For refrence, the pattern other apps use is showing the HeaderBar when hovering over the top of the screen.

gnunn1 commented 6 years ago

I've never noticed that before, the only app that I can find that reveals the headerbar when the mouse is at the top is gedit. I tried gnome-terminal and it does not, can you list what other apps do this because it would be interesting to see if they are all using the same implementation. gedit seems to be doing this itself rather then as a standard behavior:

https://github.com/GNOME/gedit/blob/778463f37810d4ca0edf9edf2f3a4bd2d50831c8/gedit/gedit-window-private.h#L58

I do agree that it is a cool feature and would be neat to implement.

BrainBlasted commented 6 years ago

GNOME Builder, Fractal, EOG (though it's a legacy toolbar rather than a HeaderBar), and Videos all show the HeaderBar in their respective fullscreen modes on hover.

gnunn1 commented 6 years ago

Thanks, looking at the gedit source code it's a bit nasty to implement in that they have a completely separate headerbar for fullscreen mode. That's fine when your headerbar is static but the tilix headerbar is dynamic which means having to update two headerbars with title changes, UI changes, etc.

I'll need to give this thought as it may require some re-work, I wouldn't expect this feature to land anytime soon unless I have an epiphany.

tagirb commented 6 years ago

It'd be a great feature to have a window/tab list (iTerm-like [1]) in the fullscreen mode. If it were a configurable status bar (tmux-like), that would be just fantastic, but even a simple list would already help to have an overview of windows.

  1. https://i.stack.imgur.com/rhBGh.png
aral commented 5 years ago

It would also be very helpful to have the option of having the toolbar always visible in full-screen mode for the same usability concerns @BrainBlasted stated.

+ another use case: recording a screen presentation, where I set my screen to 1080p (1920x1080) and I set all the windows I’m demoing to full-screen and capture them separately. With Tilix, I either have to have it maximised (and thus the wrong aspect ratio so it appears with black bars in the video) or full-screen but then you cannot see what app it is. To get rid of the black lines, I will be using the latter (Tilix in full-screen) but that means people watching the presentation don’t know it’s Tilix.