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Yeah, except it is NOT a "maximize" button and never was. macOS just doesn't do maximized apps the way Windows and some Linux DEs do.
by Toutouxc 6y ago
Yeah, except it is NOT a "maximize" button and never was.
macOS just doesn't do maximized apps the way Windows and some Linux DEs do.
- jtvjan 6y agoBefore Yosemite the green button worked like a maximize button, and you had a separate fullscreen button on the other side. Now you need to ⌥-click the green button to maximize.
- saagarjha 6y agoNo, that's not what it does on macOS. It simply makes the window larger and has done that ever since it was introduced, I believe. (I think for many document-based apps this just means to make the window taller, for example.)
- jablan 6y agoIIRC the green button was "zoom", meaning it should adapt the window size to the window content, which in most of the cases resulted with maximizing.
- jablan 6y agoI know, but it as close to maximize as it gets. That's not my point, but that the behavior has changed dramatically.
- chipotle_coyote 6y agoI've been a full-time Mac user for nearly 20 years and I'm kind of with jablan here. :)
- dahauns 6y agoAnd it's still fundamentally flawed as ever. (since the suggested behavior in the HIG presumes contextual intent is something that's generally clear or even decidable from the content.)