Comments on: Hey Apple! Fix the green button already!

By: sault

sault — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:30:15 +0000

jhn, EVERY options should be given to users. USERS should decide what to use. Unless your alias is “the Nazarene”, of course…. :-)

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By: jhn

jhn — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:22:10 +0000

“Maximize” should not be an option given to users. It’s stupid and inefficient and they need to be weened off of it.

I agree that “zoom” needs to be fixed, but it needs to be fixed to normal zooming.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:28:21 +0000

Just got myself a MAC and was so irritated about this and apparently, I’m not the only one…

By: wil

wil — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:01:46 +0000

I’ve just noticed someone made a program to fix the button, see http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/30591/right-zoom

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:29:08 +0000

This green button issue is making me want to switch BACK to Windows. I love the mac but hate the green button with unadulterated passion.

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By: Matthew Kennedy

Matthew Kennedy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:10:00 +0000

Apple please fix the green button it’s too dam contextual it needs to serve one function throughout the operating system it will stop switchers from windows moaning and make your operating system feel loads better in an instant.
At the moment in most apps it just shrinks the window to fit content apart from Skype iCal most the iLife stuff ( mini player in itunes ) blar di blar

Id go for switch between too sizes set by user simple, (apart from in quicktime it would have flick between the original size of the movie and a resized by user size!!

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:13:02 +0000

So, what happened in Leopard?

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By: iamkeir

iamkeir — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:59:45 +0000

“#82 iamkeir says:

…very distracting to have other windows/apps visible…”

Edit: I meant to say “very distracting to have other windows/apps visible in the background, in the space around the unmaximised window”

Heh heh, Mac OS X needs a maximise button, like this blog needs an edit button!

By: iamkeir

iamkeir — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:32:34 +0000

“#65 michel says:

green button MAXIMIZES THE WINDOW TO SHOW, when possible, THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT!

some others developper can do what they want but IT’s a button TO ZOOM to MAX the DOCUMENT! NOT the window!”

Whilst I appreciate that the green button for the main part does what it is ‘meant to’, when I’m working in, and trying to concentrate on, one window I actually find it very distracting to have other windows/apps visible which is why I like to maximise it to full screen.

I think both the intended functionality of the the green button and the ability to maximise to full screen are both useful (if not almost fundamental) and I see no reason why the latter is left out. Macs are becoming a lot more mainstream so a function that is useful just for developers is really quite short-sighted.

Also, thanks to the chap who posted the tip about holding down the shift key and clicking the green button…but it only works in some apps and not others.

I’m off to download that Stoplight tool…

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:24:49 +0000

Green button Abyss….Just bought my son a MacBook for college and can’t understand why the “user” has no flexibility to set screen size to what “WE” want it to be. First Mac experience and enough to sell me on staying with Dell-IBM-Toshiba-HP-Acer-ANYONE else…

By: tachyon

tachyon — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:01:54 +0000

The Windowshade behavior from OS 9 is still lingering in the app “Stickies”.
As for what Windows switchers do- they hit the “white blob” or chiclet on the right side of the window, because that is where they are used to seeing window controls and they can’t comprehend any interface differing from The Great Seattlian One. Of course you know pressing this removes the sidebar and brushed metal look of the window and gives it a more Classic/OS 9 feel. In other apps it collapses button bars or other unexpected behavior. In any case, they are confused with that one too!

By: Felix

Felix — Tue, 15 May 2007 03:17:29 +0000

Hi, really great article! Can I translate it into Chinese and publish it onto my personal blog, so that you could share your thoughts with more people?
Actually, I’v already translated the whole part, so it’s up to you.

Cheers!

By: Motorcycle Guy

Motorcycle Guy — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:04:18 +0000

I kind of like how macs don’t maximize the browser window full screen.

By: Ray Cruz

Ray Cruz — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:45:22 +0000

I agree with Eddie! Fix this irritating problem Apple!

By: g

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:22:43 +0000

@ gb – I can sympathize! No one considers the colorblind – ever. It’s simply amazing to me that this aspect of the OSX interface is unconfigurable.

By: gb

gb — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:54:46 +0000

Another problem is the use of aqua colors. I am green/red colorblind. I cannot tell which button is which looking at them. As a part time windows user I cannot remember left from right order so I end up not using the buttons because I don’t know what they will do. I wish I could have a preference to always show the plus (+) and minus (-) symbols all the time (like in Windows where an icon us used instead of color — so you can set the colors too using prefs)